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Graveyard

Bennettsbridge (Shillelogher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Bennettsbridge, 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
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-

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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)
  • 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

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

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

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