Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Greatwood, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greatwood
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.58514, -7.36429
- SMR number
- KK022-019002-
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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
In woodland, indicated as a raised oval area (dims. c. 74m N-S; c. 52m E-W) on the 1899-1900 revision of the 6-inch OS map. The map shows the wood crisscrossed with trackways, including a wider main track running roughly E-W through the centre of the enclosure. Another track, running roughly NE-SW, skirts along the NW sector, and has subsequently become a public road. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 441), in Greatwood townland, 'there is a field called the Bawnakilleen, that is, the field of the Killeen or little church. Tradition states that there was an ancient church here, and that a small circular enclosure, like a rath, still remaining, marks the place in which it stood'. The enclosure is heavily overgrown with trees and scrub, surrounded by intensively planted woodland. The church (KK022-019001-) is not indicated on the 1st (1839) or revised (1899-1900) ed. of the OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 May 2021
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.