Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Tubbrid Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tubbrid Upper
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.71320, -7.47847
- SMR number
- KK013-032002-
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a broad terrace on the SE side of the Nuenna river valley, the river flowing c. 120m to the NW, surrounded by pasture. There are good views SW-NE along valley and NW across valley. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 370) the church belonged to the Canons Regular of St. Augustine, St. John's Abbey, Kilkenny. The medieval church (KK013-032001-) of Tubbrid is orientated NE-SW and centrally placed within a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 38m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE). The graveyard was enclosed by a stone wall in the 19th century. It sits upon a raised platform (H 0.6m) which extends 3-6m beyond the graveyard wall. It appears to have been truncated by the public road which runs NE-SW along the SE wall of the graveyard.
The OS Letters (1839) mention, 'an old grave of one of the Shortalls' in the graveyard (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 170 (55-6)). However, according to Carrigan (ibid.), 'there are many monuments here to members of the Shortall family, but none of them older than the middle of the 18th century'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 30 July 2019
References
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.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.