Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
St. John'S, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- St. John'S
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carrig Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carrig Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.48332, -6.57198
- SMR number
- WX026-005002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the crest of a steep E-facing slope of the Slaney valley with the N-S river c. 240m to the E. What is probably the site of the parish church of St John's (WX026-005001-) is within a rectangular and neglected graveyard (dims c. 90m N-S; 15-30m E-W) defined by masonry walls and known as Carrig or Corrig graveyard. William Grattan-Flood (1896) recorded twelve of the oldest headstones dating from 1739 to 1795.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 July, 2012
References
Grattan-Flood, W. H. 1896. Enniscorthy parish: Inscribed tombs in the Corrig Churchyard, Enniscorthy. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland, vol. 3, 2, 350-1.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - formal gardenunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.