Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Killisk, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killisk
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.46153, -6.44487
- SMR number
- WX027-025002-
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 on a slight rise on the gentle W-facing slope of a low hill. The parish church of Killisk (WX027-025001-) is within a circular enclosure which is truncated by an E-W laneway at S and is now D-shaped (dims. 39m E-W; 32m N-S). The enclosure is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3- 8m; H 0.3-0.7m). There is no evidence of burial, although John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 records that burial had been discontinued for forty years (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 221-2). The site of St Bridget's Well (WX027-024----) is c. 350m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 July, 2012
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of County Wexford, collected during progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Typescript in 2 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.