Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Grangefertagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangefertagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77847, -7.54435
- SMR number
- KK008-047002-
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
On a natural rise in gently undulating terrain with marshy flood plain of the River Goul to the N and W. Located on a former early medieval monastery probably founded by St Ciarán of Sir in the 6th century (Harbison 1992, 198). The later medieval church (KK008-047001-), aligned E-W with a N chapel is roughly centrally placed within the largely rectangular graveyard (dims. 44m N-S; 60m E-W), the southern portion of which extends westward for c. 22m and includes a round tower (KK008-047004-). The entrance to the graveyard is in the SW leading from the public road. The graveyard is enclosed by a stone wall.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 February 2017
References
Harbison, P. 1992 Guide to the national and historic monuments of Ireland. Gill and Macmillan Ltd., Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.