Church in Killann

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Located on a gentle S-facing slope in the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains. This could be an early ecclestiastical site and the site of the parish church of Killann. According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 Robert Clere was the curate, and the church and chancel were in repair (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 272). The old church was pulled down c. 1835 according to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 102) and no traces of it are now visible within a subrectangular graveyard (dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank. Traces of an ecclesiastical enclosure (diam. c. 100-120m) remain NE–S–NW of the graveyard, defined by a scarp (H c. 0.5m), but the perimeter is removed NW-NE by an E-W road and a carpark. St Anne's Well (WX018-011----) where the pattern was held on 26th July until 1824 and which is still venerated, lies c. 160m S of the graveyard. (Culleton 1999, 127) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). 2013

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX018-012001

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