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Church

Kilbarrymeaden, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Kilbarrymeaden, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilbarrymeaden
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.16517, -7.32325
SMR number
WA025-040001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 on a low N-S ridge. This is an early ecclesiastical site and the parish church of Kilbarrymeaden at the NW corner of a small rectangular graveyard (WA024-040002-) (dims. c. 35m E-W; c. 20m N-S) defined by drystone walls. This is a nave (int. dims. 13.5m E-W; 6.45m N-S) and chancel (int. dims. 6.75m E-W; 4.05m N-S) church, of which the nave, largely rebuilt of drystone walling and featureless, was added to the chancel. The chancel walls survive almost complete, except the E wall and the chancel arch. It comprises large well-set stones with an inserted plain light in the S wall.
A graveslab (WA025-040005-) (dims. 1.94m x 0.73m) dated 1602 commemorating Nicholas Power of Georgestown c. 3km to the NW in a roman script (Power 1896, 195-8) is in the chancel. A bullaun stone (WA025-040004-) (dims. 1.5m x 1.3m; max. H 0.47m) with two basins (diam. 0.34-0.38m; D 0.12m: diam. 0.34m; D 0.13m) is just E of the graveyard in a field that contains a field system (WA025-040003-). This is an area of c. 4ha with the remains of five or six fields (dims. c. 30m x c. 30m) defined by low grass-covered banks or scarps and bordered by a sunken roadway (WA025-040006-) (Wth 3-6m; L c. 50m) at its S edge. St Bernard's Well (WA025-041----), a circular spring (diam. 4.2m) which is still venerated, is c. 500m to the SW. The ogham stone (WA025-078----) from Kilbeg, the townland immediately to the E, may have come from here originally.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Date of upload/revision: 16th May 2011.

References

Power, Rev. P. 1896 The ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 2, 2-15, 195-208.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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