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On a small hillock in a N-S valley, in reclaimed grassland. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map the graveyard is drawn as a dashed line encircling the church, indicating that there was not a physical graveyard enclosure. Moore (1874-9, 45) refers to a possible ogham stone (KK013-067003-) which was uncovered in the…

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On a small hillock in a N-S valley, in reclaimed grassland. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map the graveyard is drawn as a dashed line encircling the church, indicating that there was not a physical graveyard enclosure. Moore (1874-9, 45) refers to a possible ogham stone (KK013-067003-) which was uncovered in the immediate vicinity and placed in the 'church-yard', 'but the workmen, when enclosing the burial-grounds, came upon it, and, through ignorance of its worth, sent it in pieces'. Moore (ibid.) also mentions that a fragment of the ogham was inserted as a quoin stone in the N angle of the graveyard. This suggests that the graveyard wall was built between 1839 and 1874. An irregularly shaped, straight-sided graveyard (c. 33m E-W; c. 22m N-S) with the remains of a church (KK013-067001-) roughly centrally placed in the N portion. The graveyard is maintained and in good condition. A possible ogham stone (KK013-067003-) was found in an adjacent outhouse.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK013-067002

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • kevin higgins, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Andy Ryan / 1803 Productions, credited by Kilkenny GAA, kilkennygaa.ie
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC0
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