Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Rathealy, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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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
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.