Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Bennettsbridge (shillelogher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bennettsbridge (shillelogher By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59815, -7.17873
- SMR number
- KK024-031002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 roughly square graveyard (dims. c. 33m N-S; c. 30m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall, located immediately N of a public road. The interior is heavily overgrown with scrub (visible on Google Earth satellite imagery date May 2009). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 486), 'The old Catholic parish church [KK024-031001-] stood on the site of the present Protestant church of Bennetsbridge, and was probably cleared away when the latter was built by Colonel John Shee, in 1795. The surrounding graveyard is very small and very old; it is still, occasionally, used for Catholic interments'. The C of I church was demolished in 1960 (O'Kelly 1969, 98).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 September 2021
References
O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.
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
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.