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Church

Rathealy, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Rathealy, 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
Rathealy
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church in ruins
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.69454, -7.43093
SMR number
KK013-060001-

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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)
  • 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

In rolling grassland at transition from slope of valley side to fairly flat valley floor. Moderate views along and across valley. Located slightly S of centre within a rectangular graveyard (KK013-060002-). The church (dims. 24m x 6m) is orientated NE-SW and is defined by a collapsed wall surviving as a grass-covered bank (ext. H 0.6-0.85m; int. H 0.2-.75m; Wth 0.9-1.1m). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 496-7) the E gable stood until blown down by a storm in 1896 and its ‘central window was ogee-headed, with external square moulding, and measured about 5 feet in height, on the outside, by about 7 inches in width; it spayed widely on the inside. The stones forming the window frame, the coins, and the barge-stones were all well-chiselled’.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 25 June 2015

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

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

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