Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilkieran (gowran By., Kilkieran Ed), County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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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 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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.