What is recorded here

Burial Ground stands on a gentle slope above the River Nore in County Kilkenny, holding graves marked from 1721 onward beside a Protestant church. The six-sided plot measures roughly thirty-two by forty-one metres, jutting into rolling pasture while the river flows fifty metres south-west. Dead people have rested there for three centuries, watched by open sky and quiet fields.

On gently sloping land at the edge of steep, though not very high, drop down to the River Nore flood plain, in rolling pasture. The Nore flows NW-SE c. 50m SW of the graveyard. There are fair to good views in all directions, with land rising gently to the NE and W. An irregularly shaped six-sided graveyard (dims. c. 32m N-S; c. 41m NW-SE) with a church (KK14-058001-) located in the N portion. The OS Letters (1839) describe the church as, ‘a modern Protestant Church and a burying ground attached’ (O’Flanagan (ed.) 1930, vol. 1, 39 (13)). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 271) the funerary monuments in the graveyard date from 1721 onward. There are no visible pre-1700 funerary monuments. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 June 2020

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