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Graveyard

Kilmadum, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kilmadum, 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
Kilmadum
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.73241, -7.22650
SMR number
KK014-020002-

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On gently sloping land above a steep-sided river valley which lies to the E and S. There are very good views to the E and S. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 464) this was formerly the parish church of Kilmadum. On the 1st (1839) ed. the graveyard is indicated as a rectangular area (dims. c. 28m N-S; c. 18m E-W) but it is not indicated on the 1946-7 revision. The footings of the church (KK014-02001-) are visible within an irregularly shaped graveyard (dims. c. 37m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a low broad bank (Wth 2m; H 0.1-0.2m) which curves in the W sector. According to the OS Letters (1839), 'there remain no appearance of graves about it, and nobody has been buried there within man's memory' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 30-31 (1071)).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 13 May 2020

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

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

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

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