What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished graveyard in County Kilkenny where interments continued within living memory, yet no monuments or clear boundary remain. The church still sits inside a faint rath-like quadrangle, facing east across a west-facing slope while a hidden stream runs nearby. Tradition claims a Mass Path led from the grounds toward a bridge to the northwest, suggesting people still walked there in darkness or distance. What is missing is not evasion; it is the shape of a place that refused to be remembered properly.

On W-facing slope, a stream runs N-S c. 180m to the W. The church (KK019-014001-), orientated ENE-WSW, is situated in the S portion of the roughly rectangular graveyard (int. dims 15.5m E-W x 45m N-S). There are good views to S-W-NW. According to the OS Letters (1839) as, ‘There is no burying ground here’ (O’Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 2, 81). Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 263) notes that, 'There is no appearance of any graveyard now, though interments took place within living memory; there are no monuments. Part of the strong earthen rampart, originally enclosing the plot containing the church church, yet remains'. O'Kelly (1969, 91) describes the enclosing graveyard as, 'a rath-like quadrangle of roughly ¼ acre with a surrounding fosse'. Tradition indicates that a Mass Path lead from church grounds to a bridge c. 170m to the NW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 September 2020

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