Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Cappagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55568, -8.88491
- SMR number
- LI020-082002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The church ruins (LI020-082001-) standing in Cappagh graveyard was known in medieval period as Kilmaclugna (Begley 1906, 113). Church ruins stand in SW quadrant of large roughly rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 60m N-S x 43m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at centre of W wall. Modern car park to S. Earlier memorials clustered to S of church with modern memorials to N of church.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 10 December 2018
References
Begley, J. 1906 The Diocese of Limerick ancient and medieval. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.