Children's burial ground

The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle SW-facing slope, just off the crest of a flat-topped hill, in very wet, waterlogged, rush infested field. There is a low hill immediately to the SE. There are very good views in all directions except upslope to the N. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 161-2), in this townland, ‘The church [KK005-054001-] stood beside Kiltown road, in a field called the “Grave field.” It “was the second church named in Rome.” (Tradition). No trace whatever of it remains, but the site is marked by a graveyard 16 yards long and 10 wide, still used as a burial place for unbaptized children. There are no inscribed head-stones’. The OS Letters (1839) (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 45-6 (16)) describes this as, 'a small burial ground used only for still-born children'. There is no visible trace of the church or graveyard at ground level.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 30 April 2018

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.