Church

The National Monuments Service's description

On a small hillock in a N-S valley and situated roughly centrally within a walled graveyard (KK013-067002-) surrounded by reclaimed grassland. In the OS Letters (1839) the church is described as being, 'forty feet [c. 12.2m] in length and twenty [6m] in breadth; a small portion of the western gable and twenty one feet [6.4m] of the southern wall remain, built of very large stones irregularly laid' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 173-4 (57)). When visited in 1987 the remains were as described in 1839, with most of the W gable (L 6m; T 0.8m) and the eastern section of the S wall (L 7m; T. 0.8m) surviving, built of poorly coursed water-worn boulders. No windows or other architectural features survive. A modern memorial has been inserted into the W end of the church. A possible ogham stone (KK013-067003-) was found in an adjacent outhouse (Moore 1874-9, 45).

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 16 April 2013

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.

Moore, Very Rev. Canon 1874-9 Parochial papers. Transactions of the Ossory Archaeological Society 1, 23-40, 45.