What is recorded here

Grave Yard sits in the southeast quadrant of a Kilkenny crossroads, holding two medieval graveslabs beneath an open sky. The church that gave it life was dismantled around 1820, its stones carried west to build a new Protestant building, yet the dead remained east of the transfer. The Kings River still flows north of the bridge, past the place where St. Mogue’s feast once marked the calendar. What was taken for walls left behind a borderless chamber, still marking the difference between memory and possession.

N of the Kings River, near Ennisnag Bridge, in the SE quadrant of a crossroads. A graveyard associated with the medieval church of Ennisnag (KK027-020001-) which, according to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 374), ‘became a ruin soon after the Reformation, and was taken down about 1820, to supply materials for the present Protestant Church, which stands at its west end. Its patron was St. Mogue, whose feast day was celebrated on the 14th Feb.’. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch the graveyard is indicated but does not seem to be enclosed, however, on the 25-inch OS map the graveyard is shown as extending from the stream, which forms the NE and E side, to the road in the W (dims. c. 113m E-W; c. 36m N-S). This stream flows into the Kings River c. 30m to the S. A road also runs along the NW boundary of the graveyard. Within the graveyard there are two medieval graveslabs (KK027-020003-/KK027-020004-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 March 2023

Medieval Christian graveyard, associated with a church dating to the medieval period. Its significance lies in its connection to the historical church of Ennisnag and as a site of local religious and burial activity.

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