Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Danesfort, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Danesfort
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.57711, -7.23418
- SMR number
- KK023-081002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
A rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 80m E-W; c. 45m N-S), entered on the W side, from what was formerly the old Kilkenny to Stonyford road, this portion of which has been bypassed by the realigned road (N10). The medieval church (KK023-081001-) is located in the NE angle of a graveyard. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 371-2) mentions a number of headstones in the graveyard which date to the late 18th/early 19th century. He also mentions a medieval graveslab (KK023-081003-) within the church (ibid.).
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.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 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.