Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Danesfort, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Danesfort
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.57721, -7.23398
- SMR number
- KK023-081001-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the NE angle of a graveyard (KK023-081002-). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 371) the parish church of Dunfert, ‘dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel (Sept. 29), was impropriate in the Prior and Canons Regular of St. John’s Abbey, Kilkenny’.
A well-preserved rectangular church. Entered through a round-headed doorway in the W gable. The interior was lit by a pointed two-light window in the N and S wall and by a pointed four-light window with switch-line tracery in the E gable. The W gable is surmounted by a bellcote for a single bell.
The OS Letters (1839) refer to, ‘a door with a strong lock’ having been placed in the W doorway, ‘put on by Colonel Wemys, who had taken up the inside for the sepulture of his family’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 271-2 (91-2)). Carrigan mentions a graveslab (KK023-081003-) in the ground at the E end of the church, ‘beside where the altar stood’ (ibid. 371-2).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 6 September 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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.