What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands on a low Kilkenny hill, holding a sub-triangular burial ground beside a medieval parish church. The Brenan family of Bagnellstown claimed it as a private grave site by the nineteenth century, marking their dead with headstones and two table tombs. Local tradition also whispers that famine victims and unbaptised children slept beneath the same soil, though visible markers still break the grass.

On a low hill in undulating pasture. A medieval parish church (KK005-011001-) is located in the NE sector. A sub-triangular graveyard (dims. 48.6m E-W x 52.6m N-S), which overlies an earlier enclosure (KK005-011003-), is enclosed by an earth and stone bank (max. ext. H 1.10m; max. int. H 0.9m; Wth 2m including slip) which is best preserved from N-E and SW-W. By the 19th-century, as recorded in the OS Letters (1839), (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 26), the graveyard was in use as a private burial ground for the Brenan family of Bagnellstown (formerly Eden Hall). The headstones and two table tombs date from the mid-19th century. There is a local tradition that famine victims and unbaptised children were buried here, though there are grave-markers. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 April 2017

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