Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Killeenoghty, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenoghty
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54449, -8.68903
- SMR number
- LI022-057002-
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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
Medieval church site (LI022-057001-) known locally as 'Teampull na Sceac', or 'Church of the Bushes' stood in the centre of a rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 33m N-S x 49m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate in centre of W wall. The church and graveyard lie in the S quadrant of a large oval-shaped ecclesiastical enclosure (LI022-057003-). The Ordnance Survey letters recorded that the name of this parish is in 'Irish Cill Fhionachta which signifies the Cell or Church of Fionachta [Fionshneachta], who is believed to have been a Saint' (OSL, 148).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 03 January 2019
References
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.