What is recorded here

Burial Ground is a graveyard in Fountain, County Waterford, Ireland. It occupies a slight north-facing slope beside a small stream that flows northeast toward the River Bride about 500 metres away. A rectangular stone-clad earthen bank encloses the burial area, measuring about 55 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west. John O'Donovan recorded around 1840 that the nearby Church of Ireland church stands within a separate D-shaped enclosure built on the site of the old church of Kilfentony.

Situated on a slight N-facing slope, at the headwaters of a small SW-NE stream that runs NE to the NW-SE River Bride, c. 500m distant. According to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1929, 72) the present C of I church within a small D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) was built on the site of the church of Kilfentony (WA029-038001-), of which there is no other record. The enclosure is defined by a stone-clad earthen bank, except SE-SW where a scarp down to the interior separates it from a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 55m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a stone-clad earthen bank, but there is no evidence of burial close to the church. O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 14 November 2011

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