Graveyard in Danesfort, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

A rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 80m E-W; c. 45m N-S), entered on the W side, from what was formerly the old Kilkenny to Stonyford road, this portion of which has been bypassed by the realigned road (N10). The medieval church (KK023-081001-) is located in the NE angle of a graveyard. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 371-2) mentions a number of headstones in the graveyard which date to the late 18th/early 19th century. He also mentions a medieval graveslab (KK023-081003-) within the church (ibid.).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK023-081002

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