Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Mountnugent Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountnugent Lower
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70299, -7.16892
- SMR number
- KK015-010002-
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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 a slight terrace on the E slopes of small NW-SE stream valley. The graveyard (dims. c. 53m N-S; c. 63m E-W) is located immediately below a motte (KK015-011----) and there is a holy well (KK015-009----) c. 26m to the SW. Within the graveyard there was an earlier church (KK015-010001-) which is not visible at ground level. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 278-9), mentions a number of memorials in the graveyard which date from 1715 onwards. A stone cross (KK015-010003-) with a carved crucifixion, possibly dating to the late medieval period/early 17th-century, was found in the graveyard.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 23 February 2016
References
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
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.