Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Connahy, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Connahy
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.76531, -7.30128
- SMR number
- KK010-094003-
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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
Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 194) records that in Connahy townland, 'A half a mile [c. 800m] north-west of the chapel there is a field, three-quarters of an acre in extent, called the Shannavŏhaun, or old hut. A square enclosure [KK010-094001-] here, 53 yards [c. 48.5m] across, with rampart and fosse, is said to have been the site of an ancient monastery. Whenever tilled the enclosure presented all the appearance of a graveyard'. According to local information a field c. 1km NW of St. Coleman's church is still known as 'Shannovohaun' and within this field there is a roughly square enclosure (visible on Digitalglobe satellite imagery, viewed 5 July 2019) which seems to correspond with the enclosure described by Carrigan.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 5 July 2019
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.