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Church

Ballylinch Demesne, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Ballylinch Demesne, 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
Ballylinch Demesne
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
(Site of) Church
Latest-edition OS map
Church (Site of)
Coordinates
52.54215, -7.18723
SMR number
KK028-018001-

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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

The church is indicated as a building in the NE sector of the Killeen graveyard (KK028-018002-) on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and is indicated by a cross ‘Site of’ immediately S of the NW wall of the shrunken graveyard on the 1948-9 revision of the OS 6-inch map. According to the OS letters (1839), the graveyard, ‘called Killeen or the Little Kill in Ballylinch (Lord Carrick’s) Demesne (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 268 (88)). This place was for the exclusive use of the Carrick family and contained a small Church which is now gone to ruin’. Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 269) describes the ‘ancient churchyard’ of Ballylinch which contains, ‘the mortuary chapel of the Carrick family, and some head-stones marking the graves of old Catholic families of the neighbourhood. There are no remains of the church’. 

 

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press. O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.

Nearby in the register

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

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