Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Kilkenny, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkenny
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42267, -8.12603
- SMR number
- RO051-098----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the NE-facing slope of a WNW-ESE section of an esker ridge. There is local information on the discovery of a burial c. 1970, which may be related to the church (RO051-009001-) c. 180m to the NW. The precise location of this feature is not known, but further burials (RO051-099----) were discovered c. 230m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.