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Graveyard

Greenhill, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Greenhill, 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
Greenhill
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.68993, -7.47770
SMR number
KK013-067002-

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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

On a small hillock in a N-S valley, in reclaimed grassland. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map the graveyard is drawn as a dashed line encircling the church, indicating that there was not a physical graveyard enclosure. Moore (1874-9, 45) refers to a possible ogham stone (KK013-067003-) which was uncovered in the immediate vicinity and placed in the 'church-yard', 'but the workmen, when enclosing the burial-grounds, came upon it, and, through ignorance of its worth, sent it in pieces'. Moore (ibid.) also mentions that a fragment of the ogham was inserted as a quoin stone in the N angle of the graveyard. This suggests that the graveyard wall was built between 1839 and 1874. An irregularly shaped, straight-sided graveyard (c. 33m E-W; c. 22m N-S) with the remains of a church (KK013-067001-) roughly centrally placed in the N portion. The graveyard is maintained and in good condition. A possible ogham stone (KK013-067003-) was found in an adjacent outhouse.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 24 March 2020

References

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

Nearby in the register

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

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