Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballymartin (fassadinin By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymartin (fassadinin By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK005-049001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 104), ‘There was a very ancient church here, which the people call Killoonach (ch guttural). It stood in the “quarry field” close to the bounds of Ballinvalla. None of its walls remained in the memory of any one now living; but some rude head stones marked graves in the churchyard till 1840, when M. William Lalor, of Grennan, the owner of the land, had the place uprooted and levelled and the enclosing earthen fence removed. Except for a slight elevation of surface and the tell-tale verdure, the site of Killoonach church is now undistinquishable from the land surrounding it’. The precise location of the church within the townland is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 May 2017
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.