Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Carrigeen (gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen (gowran By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.69107, -7.18796
- SMR number
- KK015-019002-
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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 crest of a small hill in rolling, mainly reclaimed, grassland. Very good views in all directions. The church (KK015-019001-) is centrally placed within a rectangular graveyard. Though the graveyard is annotated on the 1st ed. OS map, it’s extent is not indicated. The surrounding wall was erected by the County Council, probably in the latter half of the 19th century. There are relatively few memorials in the graveyard, apart from several large early 19th-century chest tombs. The earliest memorial noted by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 273) dates from 1732.
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.