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Graveyard

Rathbeagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Rathbeagh, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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