Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Rathcusack Or Rathcorrig, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcusack Or Rathcorrig
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Friars Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Friars Chapel (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.58045, -7.17841
- SMR number
- KK024-059001-
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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
On brow of gentle W-facing slope with good views from S-W-N. The River Nore flows roughly N-S c. 300m to the W. Centrally placed within a circular ecclesiastical enclosure (KK024-059003-) and graveyard (KK024-059002) are the ruins of a rectangular church (dims 10.8m E-W; 5.1m N-S) constructed of roughly coursed limestone blocks. The present remains consist of the grassed-over wall-footings of the N and S side walls (max. H 1.1m; T 0.8m) and the E gable (max. H 1.1m) and the W gable (max. H 0.4m) were both the internal and external faces of the wall are visible. No architectural features survive. A mature ivy-covered yew tree is growing out of the footings of the W gable. Two 19th-century headstones have been erected within the church interior.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 29 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 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.