Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Glashare, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glashare
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.78785, -7.51693
- SMR number
- KK008-027002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In low-lying rolling pasture, just above flood plain of river and 100m SE of Glashare Castle (KK008-026----). There is no visible trace above ground of a church (KK008-027001-) within the roughly square graveyard (dims. 34m N-S; 32.5m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall. The OS Letters (1839) note the name of the 'old small burying ground' as 'Teampall Ghlaise Air, i.e., Gleshare Church' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 153 (50)). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 287), 'There are several headstone here, all of modern date'. When visited in 1987 it was noted that the graveyard was still in use, though overgrown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 28 September 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.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.