What is recorded here

Site of Ch. is a church in Ballykennedy, County Waterford, Ireland. It occupies a slight rise in an undulating landscape and holds a derelict Church of Ireland building inside a neglected rectangular graveyard. The graveyard measures about 50 metres east to west and 40 metres north to south, with boundaries formed by stone-clad earthen banks. No earlier structure, architectural fragment or graveslab is evident at the site.

Located on a slight rise in an undulating landscape. The parish church of Whitechurch was within a rectangular, neglected graveyard (dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N -S) defined by stone-clad earthen banks. There is a derelict C of I church on the site, but there is no evidence of an earlier structure, not even the archtectural fragments or the graveslab of Catherine Hyde, inscribed in roman capitals and probably 17th centur in date, described by Power (1898a, 88-9). Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 11th August, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.

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