Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilmademoge, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmademoge
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 52.71544, -7.24622
- SMR number
- KK014-042002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On top of a steep rounded hillock in steeply undulating countryside. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map the medieval church (KK014-042001-) of Kilmademoge is located on the N edge of a oval area (dims. c. 30m N-S; c. 35m E-W) annotated 'Burial Ground' which is outlined by a dashed line, this indicates that the burial ground was not physically enclosed. The OS Letters (1839) refer to it as, 'a small burying ground on the south [of the church]' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 36 (12)). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 463) the graveyard was, 'walled in many years ago by the Kilkenny Board of Guardians', at which time it appears to have been enlarged (dims. c. 32m N-S; c. 43m E-W), with the church now N of centre within the sub-oval shaped enclosing element.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 3 June 2020
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.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.