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Graveyard

Ballynaboley (Gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Ballynaboley, 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
Ballynaboley (Gowran By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.60107, -7.12100
SMR number
KK024-042002-

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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

On a N-facing slope with limited views due to rising ground, except to the NE. Ballynaboley tower house (KK024-040----) is located c. 230m to the NW. The medieval church (KK024-042001-) is situated in the SW angle of a graveyard. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly rectangular unenclosed graveyard (dims. c. 56m N-S; c. 70m E-W at the N, narrowing to c. 43m at the S) with a trackway running NW-SE along the W side. The graveyard is not indicated on the 1899-1902 revision of the OS 6-inch map. When described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 485), the ‘surrounding churchyard has now no appearance of graves; the fence that formerly protected it has been thrown down, but can still be traced’.
A rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 55.6m E-W; 27.5m N-S) defined by a barely discernible low earthen bank. There are no upstanding grave-markers.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 27 September 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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