Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Kilkenny Abbey, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkenny Abbey
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48944, -7.81521
- SMR number
- WM023-025004-
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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
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 (WM023-025001-). To SE of 19th century church, within the graveyard there is a small rectangular chapel (WM023-025002-). The quadrantal form of the graveyard (WM023-025001-) boundary wall possibly indicates the presence of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (Swan 1988, 19).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 9 October 2015
References
Swan, D. L. 1988 Early Christian ecclesiastical sites. In J. Bradley (ed.), Settlement and society in medieval Ireland: studies presented to F.X. Martin OSA, 1-31. Kilkenny. Boethius Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.