Graveyard

The National Monuments Service's description

On the top of a broad flat ridge, the ground falls to the S beyond the graveyard and is surrounded by pasture. The Civil Survey 1654-56 refers to the glebeland of the church as being located 'by the Church yard' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 27, 367). The graveyard was originally enclosed by an earthen scarp (H 1.3m), only the SE sector of which survives, extending 34m E-W and 24m N-S. The OS Letters (1840) state that the graveyard was not enclosed by a wall, so the present stone wall enclosing the rectangular graveyard to the N, E and W and projecting southward (dims 32m N-S; 36m E-W) to enclose an area around the 19th century C of I church, post-dates 1840 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 112 ((307)). The medieval church is located in the NE quadrant of the graveyard (dims. 30-35m N-Sl; 54m E-W) which 18th century headstones to S of church, 18th and 19th century headstones to the S and W of church and large mid-19th century obolisk to the SW. 1844-61, all Low family Kilshane. 19th century church has been built at base of graveyard slope to S, now in ruins. The latest headstones date to 2002 and are located in the S and SW quadrant of the graveyard, however, there are very few 20th and 21st headstones, the vast majority being of 19th century date. A bullaun stone ((TS061-178----) found in Kilshane is currently housed in the folk museum in Cashel.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1934 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. II: county of Tipperary - Western and Northern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.