Graveyard in Rathbeagh, County Kilkenny

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On the brow of a gentle E-facing slope, commanding a fine view from NNW-E-SE which is limited elsewhere by a rise in ground level. An irregular D-shaped area (dims. c. 60m E-W; c. 43m N-S) enclosed by a stone wall, entered from the NE side. The graveyard is within the fork of two road, one running NW-SE along the SW side and the other abutting a short section of the NE boundary. In the E portion of the graveyard there is a church (KK009-048001-) with residential tower (KK009-048002-). The gravestones, which largely date from early 18th-20th century, concentrate in the S and W areas of the graveyard, and are notably absent N of the church. Three panels of a chest tomb (KK009-048006-) have been re-used as grave-markers, S, SW and SE of the church. Also within the graveyard is a graveslab (KK009-048004-) dated c. 1600, which was not noted when the graveyard was visited in 1994.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK009-048003

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