Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kellymount, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kellymount
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68536, -7.06063
- SMR number
- KK015-032003-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
In upland river valley at the E end of a low ridge overlooking a steep river valley to the E and N, with an early medieval church (KK015-030001-) and graveyard (KK015-030002-) 85m to the E. A holy well known as St. Scoheen's Well (KK015-030006-) is incorporated into the S section of a 19th-century graveyard wall. Freneystown castle (KK015-031----) dominates the view from high ground 545m to the SE of the later medieval church and graveyard. A 19th-century C of I Church, built on and incorporating the medieval church, is located in the N quadrant of a large rectangular-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 34m N-S; 75m E-W) enclosed by a 19th-century wall (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.3m; wall T 0.45m). There is a medieval grave-slab (KK015-030007-) approx. 20m W of the W gable of the C of I Church, in the W quadrant of the graveyard. A possible earlier graveyard enclosure is visible as a low bank located inside the upstanding graveyard wall and is visible as a low rise of ground in SW quadrant of graveyard. All the memorials are of 18th and 19th-century date and are located in the W quadrant of the graveyard.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 14 March 2016
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Tunnelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.