Graveyard

The National Monuments Service's description

The OS Letters (1839) (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 72 (24)) refer to, ‘a small burying ground and the foundation of a Church [KK005-060001-] in the Townland of Strathleigh in this parish’. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 85-6), ‘Kilcormaic was a parochial church down to the Reformation, when its parish became merged in Donnoughmore’. Carrigan (ibid.) mentions that there is ‘but one inscribed stone in the graveyard; it dates from about 1840. An occasional interment still takes place here’. Though not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch or 25-inch maps, the church and graveyard were located during a Sites and Monuments Record Office fieldwork in 1987. The graveyard appears to be indicated as an irregularly shaped field (dims. c. 53m NW-SE; c. 22m NE-SW at the NW end, widening out to c. 44m at the NE end).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 22 May 2017

References

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.

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