Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penal Mass station
Deerpark (Knocktopher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deerpark (Knocktopher By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.35952, -7.17034
- SMR number
- KK040-075----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
At the E side of a field S of a lane close to a railway bridge. Known as ‘Park Chapel’. A roughly built wall (L 18m) projecting 3m from the E field fence and acting as a retaining wall for the slope above it. Midway along is an ‘altar’ flanked by pointed-arch recesses (H 1.1m; Wth 0.5m). A recess (Wth 0.25m; H 0.3m) built of quartz boulders with a stone tablet forming the door may have been used as a tabernacle. The stone tablet has an inscription which reads ‘ R C Chapel from 1772 to 1805’.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 18 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.