Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Blanchvillespark, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blanchvillespark
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65193, -7.10492
- SMR number
- KK020-025002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. as a small enclosure and on the 1900 revision as an oval enclosure (dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 30m E-W) with trees in the interior. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 417), this is the 'most ancient cemetery, locally known as "the Church of Park,". It is described as being, 'surrounded by a wall, but is little better than a wilderness of bushes and briars. None of the inscribed monuments here are old...Interments still take place here' (ibid.). Carrigan describes the associated church (KK020-025001-) as being reduced to wall-footings (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 November 2020
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.