What is recorded here

Killsheffin Burying Ground occupied a small rectangular slope beside the public road in County Kilkenny before humans levelled it around 1850. They removed every visible trace, erasing the church and graveyard as though no body had ever entered the earth. The land keeps that forgotten shape only in measurement and name, while the dead return to the unknown.

On a steep S-facing slope on the side of a valley, in rolling grassland. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map a small rectangular area (dims. c. 17m x 11m) is indicated N of the public road and immediately E of Tifeaghna townland. The OS Letters (1839) refer to this as, 'a small obsolete burying ground now covered with furze in the Townland of Clontrbrid and called Cill Sheiffin' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 90 (30)). Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 326-7) records that, 'The church of Sheffin stood in the extreme west end of the townland of Clonetubrid, within a few perches of the townland of Tifeaghna, and beside the public road from Clonetubrid chapel to Garranamanagh. It was obliterated long before anyone now living can remember. The graveyard having become obsolete, except for the burial of unbaptized children, was levelled about 1850, and every vestige of it removed as completely as if a human interment had never taken place here'. There is no visible trace at ground level and no local recollection of this church (KK009-043001-) and graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 5 February 2018

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