Graveyard or cemetery in Gardens, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Graveyard or cemetery in Gardens, in Saint John’s parish, gathers some of Kilkenny’s grandest names behind a rough limestone wall. You could spend your whole life getting people to call you “Your Worship” and still finish with an address that sounds like somewhere you’d buy a rake.

Graveyard with various cut-stone markers, pre-1699-c.1950, having random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site.

A picturesque graveyard forming an appealing feature in the streetscape on the road leading out of Kilkenny to the south-east. Having origins in a fourteenth-century leper hospital the grounds are of special significance as the location of a seventeenth-century Catholic chapel, thereby representing an early ecclesiastical site in the locality: furthermore it is believed that fragments survive spanning the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, thereby emphasising the archaeological importance of the site. The graveyard remains of additional importance for the associations with a number of Kilkenny's foremost dignitaries or personalities while a collection of cut-stone markers displaying expert stone masonry identify the considerable artistic design value of the site.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12006017

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Becky McReynolds, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
John Stephen Reid, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adrian Taylor, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC0
A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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