Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Grove (shillelogher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grove (shillelogher By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.60067, -7.33222
- SMR number
- KK023-030002-
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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. OS 6-inch map as a roughly square area (dims. c. 53m NE-SW; c. 56m NW-SE), widening slightly to the SW, with rounded corners at the SE and SW. On this 1st ed. it is defined by a dashed line which suggests that the graveyard was unenclosed. By the 1947 revision map the graveyard had been enclosed to roughly the same area. The medieval church (KK023-030001-), orientated E-W, occupies the N portion of the graveyard. The graveyard is entered at the S end of the E wall from the public road. The OS Letters (1839) describe the graveyard as, ‘a large and much frequented burying ground attached. The people all call this (Roilig a Tulacháin) Roilig a Tulachain, i.e., the Burying Ground of the Tulachan’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 281-2 (95)).
According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 385) there is a coffin-shaped slab (KK023-030004-) in the graveyard, adjacent to the entrance to the church. Another graveslab fragment near the entrance to the graveyard may be portion of the chest tomb (KK023-030003-) also mentioned by Carrigan (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 July 2021
References
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
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.