Graveyard

The National Monuments Service's description

On a steep S-facing slope on the side of a valley, in rolling grassland. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map a small rectangular area (dims. c. 17m x 11m) is indicated N of the public road and immediately E of Tifeaghna townland. The OS Letters (1839) refer to this as, 'a small obsolete burying ground now covered with furze in the Townland of Clontrbrid and called Cill Sheiffin' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 90 (30)). Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 326-7) records that, 'The church of Sheffin stood in the extreme west end of the townland of Clonetubrid, within a few perches of the townland of Tifeaghna, and beside the public road from Clonetubrid chapel to Garranamanagh. It was obliterated long before anyone now living can remember. The graveyard having become obsolete, except for the burial of unbaptized children, was levelled about 1850, and every vestige of it removed as completely as if a human interment had never taken place here'. There is no visible trace at ground level and no local recollection of this church (KK009-043001-) and graveyard.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 5 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.