Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballycallan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycallan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62179, -7.36553
- SMR number
- KK018-072001-
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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)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a low rise with good views to the NE, SE and S but limited elsewhere due to higher ground. The medieval church is not visible at ground level. According to the OS Letters (1839), ‘It is probable that the present Protestant Church, which may be fifty years old [built c. 1790], occupies the site of the ancient one’ (O’Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 235 (79)). The C of I church had itself been demolished by 1900 as it does not appear on the revised 6-inch OS map. Several medieval architectural fragments from the church have been reused in the graveyard (KK018-072002-) as grave-markers. A ‘small ancient cross' (KK022-008----) was identified c. 1km to the SE in the 1850s and it was suggested that it may have been the gable cross (KK018-072003-) of the medieval church (Anon. 1854-5, 343-4). There are four graveslabs (KK018-072004-; KK018-072005-; KK018-072006-; KK018-072007-) in the graveyard, which appear to be of 13th/14th-century date.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 3 February 2021
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.