What is recorded here

Kilmanagh is a lost church whose stones were scattered to build a parsonage around 1809, leaving one decorated limestone block embedded in the graveyard wall. The block still carries punch-tool marks from the late medieval period, testifying that the building existed before it was erased. What remains is not a monument but a wound in the landscape, a place where memory was broken open and reused.

In the graveyard (KK018-06605-) associated with the medieval church of Kilmanagh (KK018-066001-). The medieval church was replaced by a C of I church in the late 18th century (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 431). According to the OS Letters (1839), ‘The old Church of Kilnamanagh is said to have been torn down about thirty years ago [c. 1809], to supply materials for building the parsonage house of the Parish (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 239). A block of limestone (KK018-066002-) incorporated in the N wall of the graveyard is decorated with punch tooling, typical of the late medieval period. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 March 2021

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