Graveyard in Kilmolash, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Situated on a level landscape. The early ecclesiastical site and the parish church of Kilmolash (WA029-017001-) is within a D-shaped graveyard (max. dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 45m N-S) defined by stone-clad earthen banks on the straight N and E sides, and a curving wall at the roadside SE-NW, now replaced by a picket fence. A fragment of a font (WA029-027010-), which was found in the graveyard wall (Buckley 1896, 219) was kept in the chuch (Power 1898b, 92), but is now missing. Buckley, M. J. C. (1896) Notes on Kilmolash Church, Near Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, WAJ vol. 2, 212-20. Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA029-027002

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