Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Muckalee, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muckalee
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.74963, -7.21081
- SMR number
- KK010-069002-
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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 a N-S ridge between the Dinin river valley to the W, Douglas river valley to the S, and a small valley to the E. The graveyard (dims. 25m N-S; 45m E-W) occupies one of the irregular humps at the S end of the ridge and has a commanding view across all three valleys. A medieval church (KK010-069001-) is centrally placed within a roughly rectangular graveyard. The graveyard is enclosed by a stone wall with an entrance gate at the E end of the N wall. The ground within the graveyard and church has been significantly raised as a result of successive burials over a long period. At the eastern end of the graveyard, approximately 5m in from the N and E wall the ground level within the graveyard rises by c. 2m and is revetted by a stone wall, now in various states of collapse. Upstanding headstones, occupying both the ruined church and the graveyard, date to the 18th and 19th centuries. Given the close proximity to a church and graveyard seven trenches were opened in 2004 in advance of house building, however, no archaeological remains were found.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 16 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.