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Graveyard

Kilmog Or Racecourse, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kilmog Or Racecourse, 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
Kilmog Or Racecourse
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.60863, -7.26564
SMR number
KK023-009004-

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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)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 390, 392) citing O'Donovan (OS Letters, 1839) gives the translation of the Irish name for the townland, Kilmogga, as, 'the Church of St. Magadh' and he gives a reference to a 13th-century charter which mentions the church (KK023-009003-) at Kilmog. Carrigan (ibid. 392-3) gives the location of the church and graveyard as, 'A gravel pit, a perch or two [5-10m] to the rere of the Bush [holy tree KK023-009002-] and Rock [bullaun stone KK023-009001-], marks, according to tradition, the site of an obliterated "churchyard." Here, then, must have stood the ancient church of St. Magadh, from which the townland of Kilmogg has been named'. The gravel pit is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, and on the 1947 revision, in the field immediately S of 'St. Patrick's Bush', running along the roadside. There is no visible trace of the graveyard at ground level.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 1 June 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

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

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