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Graveyard

Kilpeacon, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kilpeacon, County Limerick, 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
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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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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

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

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