Graveyard

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in a fold on the NE-facing slope of what was once the Great Island (dims c. 2.5km N-S; c. 800m E-W at S to 1.8km E-W at N) in the N-S River Barrow/Nore but the channel (Wth c. 500-600m) around the NE and E sides of the island is long silted up and reclaimed. The site of an early church and the parish church of Kilmokea (WX039-018002-) is within a small D-shaped graveyard (dims. c. 32m E-W; c. 17-27m N-S) defined by masonry walls on the S side of an E-W road. Within the graveyard is a small high cross (WX039-018004-), a circular font (WX039-018009-) and a crude granite cross base (WX039-018010-). The sheela-na-gig (WX039-088----) was found in the garden of Kilmokea House and is presumed to have come from the graveyard. Archaeological testing (02E0072) c. 70m ENE of the graveyard and S of the E-W public road uncovered evidence of a ditch with an internal bank on the line of the ecclesiastical enclosure (WX039-018007-), but further testing (07E0941) outside the line of the enclosure c. 120m to the ENE of the graveyard and N of the public road produced no related material (Stafford 2010). Archaeological testing (10E0126) outside the W edge of the enclosure c. 225m W of the graaveyard produced no related material (Stafford 2013).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 28 January, 2013

References

Stafford, E. 2013 Great Island, Kilmokea No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 248, No. 775. Dublin, Wordwell

Stafford, E. 2004. Kilmokea House, Kilmokea. Ecclesiastical site. in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 518, No. 1916. Bray, Wordwell

Stafford, E. 2010. Great Island. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 548, No. 1965. Dublin, Wordwell