Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilbrickan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbrickan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK026-028001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 334-5), in Kilbrickan townland, the site of St. Breacan’s church, ‘is pointed out, a short distance from the King’s river, in Mrs. Kirwan’s “kiln field.” The church and graveyard were destroyed so very long ago that very few know anything about their having ever been here. During tillage operations, however, the darkish, “greasy” earth turned up in the part of the “kiln field” known as the “Black Loach” tells its own tale. A quarry has been worked on the verge of the “Black Loach,” in one of the sides of which the writer, some years ago, saw the protruding bones of the long-buried dead’. The precise location of the church (KK026-028001-) and graveyard (KK026-028002-) in the S portion of Kilbrickan is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 May 2022
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.