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Church

Kilcockan, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Kilcockan, 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
Kilcockan
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church in ruins
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.03684, -7.88340
SMR number
WA034-019001-

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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 gentle SW-facing slope within a circular graveyard (WA034-019004-) (diam. c. 60-65m) defined by a field bank NW-E-SW, and by a stone wall at the roadside SW-NW. The parish church of Kilcockan which was still in good repair at the end of the 16th century (Power 1898a, 213). Undifferentiated structure (ext. dims. 16.7m E-W; 8m N-S) surviving almost complete with quoins, except the W end which was incorporated into a mausoleum in 1830. The mausoleum occupies the church W of the original doorway in the S wall. There is a stoup and an aumbry in the S wall, ogee-headed lights with lintelled embrasures and dressed ingoings in the E and N walls, and a blocked window in the S wall.

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.

Date of upload: 19 August 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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