Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilkenny Abbey, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkenny Abbey
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.48944, -7.81521
- SMR number
- WM023-025001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of elevated grassland with good views in all directions. Holy well (WM023-024----) located 215m to NE, abbey site (WM023-026----) 30m to SSE and castle (WM023-023---) 90m to W. 19th century Church of Ireland church possibly standing on site of medieval parish church (WM023-025---) now disused and in a ruinous condition standing in N quadrant of a sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (52m N-S; 57m E-W) enclosed by a post-medieval stone wall with entrance gate and stone steps in centre of W wall. Stile located off centre to S in W wall of graveyard. To SE of 19th century church, within the graveyard there is a small rectangular chapel (WM023-025002-). The graveyard contains memorials of post-medieval date with architectural fragments of the medieval church reused as grave-markers in S quadrant.
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 6 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.