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Graveyard

Kilkieran (Gowran By., Kilkieran ED), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kilkieran, 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
Kilkieran (Gowran By., Kilkieran ED)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.69661, -7.19617
SMR number
KK015-007002-

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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 the SW side of a hillock standing above rolling grassland. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 280-81), the old parish church of Kilkieran [KK015-007001-], 'dedicated, presumably, to St. Kieran of Ossory, stood on the roadside, to the left, as one goes from Carrigeen to Sandfordcourt. It was destroyed long ago and not a trace of it now remains. The graveyard has no appearance of graves, its surface being quite level, except for a small mound near its east end; no headstones are now visible. The graveyard fence can still be traced sufficiently to show the original extent of the enclosure'. The graveyard is not visible at ground level.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 23 February 2016

Nearby in the register

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

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