Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Coolfinn, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolfinn
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilbunny Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilbunny Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.27153, -7.29429
- SMR number
- WA008-010001-
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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
Situated at the edge of the floodplain of the River Suir with the W-E Kilbunny Stream 30-40m to the SE. The Romanesque parish church of Guilcagh is within a small rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 45m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank. The church of Foilinge was described as repaired in 1615 (Power 1913, 117). The church is a rectangular structure (ext. dims. 8.65m E-W; 5.87m N-S; wall H 1-3m) which was conserved in the early 1920s. A tapered W doorway (H 1.96m; Wth at base 0.78m; Wth at top 0.7m) has a round arch decorated with chevrons, a hood-moulding and cut-stone jambs with a pellet design. Each jamb has a capital decorated with an ornamental head - the N capital depicts a human, the S capital depicts a ram. N of the door-arch is a stone carved with the head of a lion, and a similar feature recorded S of the arch is now missing. There are two bullaun stones outside the doorway and an altar has been built into the E wall. An effigy of a bishop with the inscription S. MONNIA EPISCOPS, a 17th-century graveslab, fragments of a chest tomb, and two quern stones are now in the National Museum of Ireland or lost. (Martin 1874-5, 248-9; Power 1895b, 247-50; 1922; P. and Ed. 1911)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999), no. 1339. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 24 May 2011.
References
Power, Rev. P. 1922 Kilbunny church, Co. Waterford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 52, 77-80.
Power, Rev. P. 1895 The ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 1, 133-41, 162-72, 247-53.
Power, Rev. P. 1913 Material condition of the churches of Waterford. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 16, 114-23.
P. and Ed. 1911 Notes and queries - Effigy of St Munna at Kilbunny. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 14, 192-3.
Martin, Dr. 1874-5 Proceedings and papers. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 13, 247-50, 437, 479, 481.
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.