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Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Canice Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Canice Par.), 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
Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Canice Par.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65649, -7.25707
SMR number
KK019-026265-

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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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Possible early medieval church identified in geophysical surveys (04R026) 10m E of the round tower (KK019-026175-) at St Canice's Cathedral (KK019-026029-) (Ó Drisceoil 2004, 80-106). A large rectangular NE-SW orientated stone building (dims c. 30m E-W x 10m N-S) indicated by the geophysics has been suggested as the possible predecessor of the present 13th-century cathedral church rather than another building (KK019-026263-) whose foundations were uncovered in the 19th century during restoration works at the cathedral (Graves and Prim 1857, 65; Ó Drisceoil 2004, 86-7).

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 16 November 2020

References

Ó Drisceoil, C. 2004 Probing the past: a geophysical survey at Saint Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny. Old Kilkenny Review 56, 80-106.

Graves, J. and Prim, J.G.A. 1857 The history, architecture and antiquities of the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny. Dublin. Hodges, Smith and Company.

Nearby in the register

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

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