Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilcullane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcullane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.50855, -8.48575
- SMR number
- LI032-076002-
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
Kilcullane church ruins (LI032-076001-) stands on N side of graveyard with Kilcullane Castle (LI033-077----) and River Camoge 110m to E. Church ruins and graveyard described in 1840 as following; ‘The old Church of this Parish is situated in a small graveyard not much used and on level ground in the Town land of Kilkillaun, about three hundred yards west of the River Camog’ (OSL, 44). Graveyard consists of a roughly rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 15m N-S x 24m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall with nave and chancel church forming N boundary of graveyard.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 April 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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.