Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Grange (fassadinin By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (fassadinin By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grangemaccomb Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grangemaccomb Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.76907, -7.34949
- SMR number
- KK009-028001-
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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 slightly raised promontory on the flood plain of the River Nore which flows c. 80m to the W. The church is located in the SW portion of the sub-rectangular graveyard (KK009-028002-). The OS Letters (1839) record that, 'The western gable only remains of the Church of Grange Mochu; the foundation may be traced to forty feet [c. 12m] in length and eighteen feet [c. 5.5m] in breadth. The wall is three feet six inches thick [1.06m] (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 40 (14)). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 321-2) the church stood in ruins, 'till about 1847, when most of it was removed to make way for a new vault for the Stannard-Lanigan family. All that now remains of it is the west gable'. Only the heavily ivy-covered W gable survives upstanding.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 1 February 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.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.