Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilpeacon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilpeacon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd. (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57856, -8.64817
- SMR number
- LI022-018002-
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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
Multi-period Church of Ireland church built on site of medieval church (LI022-018001-) of Kilpeacon dedicated to St. Beagán, anglicised Peacon (Ó Riain 2011, 93-4). Present church described by the National Inventory Architectural Heritage as a 'Freestanding cruciform-plan Church of Ireland church, built in 1759, incorporating fabric from an earlier church with addition of transepts in 1819-20 by the Board of First Fruits. Projecting chancel and vestry to east elevation added in 1867. Monument to Sir William King inside church. Graveyard to site with upstanding grave markers. Rubble limestone boundary walls with cut limestone gate piers flanking double-leaf cast-iron gates' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; Reg. No. 21902214).
Church stands in centre of square-shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 41m N-S x 38m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall accessed from entrance gate in N wall.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 02 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.