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Graveyard

Carrigeen (Gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, 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
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
52.69107, -7.18796
SMR number
KK015-019002-

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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. 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.

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