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Graveyard

Churchclara, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Churchclara, 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
Churchclara
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.65539, -7.14608
SMR number
KK020-017002-

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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 lower reaches of a hill with good views to the E-SE, enclosing a centrally placed medieval church (KK020-017001-). A public road runs N-S along the W side of the graveyard. The 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map shows an irregular dashed line surrounding the church which suggests that the graveyard was not enclosed at this stage. By the 1900 revision of the OS 6-inch map the graveyard wall has been built and remains as it is today, with the entrance from the road on the W side consisting of an iron gate between stone piers and a stile immediately to the N. A rectangular area (dims. 50m E-W x 31m N-S) enclosed by a stone wall with roughly cut, slightly projecting, coping stones.
On top of the S boundary wall is an architectural fragment (dims. 05m x 0.27m) chamfered and smoothly dressed on two faces. All gravestones date from the 18th-century and later, with several architectural fragments employed as grave-markers. In the SW corner of the graveyard there is portion of a shaft from a font (KK020-017004-). Also at the W end of the church there is a 13th/14th-century graveslab (KK020-017005-).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 18 November 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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