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Church

Carrigeen (Gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Carrigeen, 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
Carrigeen (Gowran By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Rathcoole Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Rathcoole Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.69103, -7.18792
SMR number
KK015-019001-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the crest of a small hill in rolling, mainly reclaimed, grassland. Very good views in all directions. Centrally placed within a graveyard (KK015-019002-) are the remains of a church (dims. 6.6m N-S x 17.8m E-W) standing on a flat platform (dims. 9m N-S; 20m E-W; H c. 0.8m; H to W c. 1.75m as ground falls away steeply). Built of well-coursed stonework, only the W gable, surviving almost to apex level, and a length of 9m of the western end of the N wall (H c. 1.75m; T 0.74m) survive to any height, the remainder being visible as wall-footings. The quoins are very roughly hammer dressed. In the W gable there is a small ivy covered window which Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 273) describes as being flat-headed and chamfered. According to Carrigan (ibid.) the patron saint was St. Thomas the Apostle.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 29 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

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

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