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Church

Rathcusack Or Rathcorrig, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Rathcusack Or Rathcorrig, 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
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 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 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

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

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