Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Tullamaine (ashbrook), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullamaine (ashbrook)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.56587, -7.35527
- SMR number
- KK022-027002-
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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 a river valley, c. 80m E of a meandering stream called the Craosóg (O’Kelly 1969, 192). The OS Letters (1839) mention, ‘a large and much frequented burying ground here’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 55-6 (19)). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 321), the ancient parish of Tullamaine, consisting of Tullamaine and Knockrea townlands, was united to the Rectory of Callan before 1300 and the parish church, ‘dedicated to St. Catherine, Virgin and Martyr, (Nov. 25th), stood on the breast of the fertile rising ground of Tullamaine, where it slopes to the south-west. Every vestige of it has disappeared’. The church (KK022-027001-) is not indicated on the 1st (1839) or revised 1899-1900 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is likely that the church was located within or close to Tullamaine graveyard.
An irregular heptagon-shaped graveyard (dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S). Carrigan (ibid.) mentions that the oldest visible funerary monument in the graveyard dated to the 18th century.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 May 2021
References
O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.
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.
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
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.