Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Rathbeagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathbeagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75463, -7.34711
- SMR number
- KK009-048003-
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 the brow of a gentle E-facing slope, commanding a fine view from NNW-E-SE which is limited elsewhere by a rise in ground level. An irregular D-shaped area (dims. c. 60m E-W; c. 43m N-S) enclosed by a stone wall, entered from the NE side. The graveyard is within the fork of two road, one running NW-SE along the SW side and the other abutting a short section of the NE boundary. In the E portion of the graveyard there is a church (KK009-048001-) with residential tower (KK009-048002-). The gravestones, which largely date from early 18th-20th century, concentrate in the S and W areas of the graveyard, and are notably absent N of the church. Three panels of a chest tomb (KK009-048006-) have been re-used as grave-markers, S, SW and SE of the church. Also within the graveyard is a graveslab (KK009-048004-) dated c. 1600, which was not noted when the graveyard was visited in 1994.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 6 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.