What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands on a small hillock in a Kilkenny valley, its irregular boundary holding the remains of a central church. Workmen building the enclosure broke a nearby ogham stone into pieces because they did not recognise its worth, then reused one fragment as a quoin in the north angle. The act turns the graveyard into a record of human failure: a valuable marker was destroyed while ordering the very place meant to remember.

On a small hillock in a N-S valley, in reclaimed grassland. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map the graveyard is drawn as a dashed line encircling the church, indicating that there was not a physical graveyard enclosure. Moore (1874-9, 45) refers to a possible ogham stone (KK013-067003-) which was uncovered in the immediate vicinity and placed in the 'church-yard', 'but the workmen, when enclosing the burial-grounds, came upon it, and, through ignorance of its worth, sent it in pieces'. Moore (ibid.) also mentions that a fragment of the ogham was inserted as a quoin stone in the N angle of the graveyard. This suggests that the graveyard wall was built between 1839 and 1874. An irregularly shaped, straight-sided graveyard (c. 33m E-W; c. 22m N-S) with the remains of a church (KK013-067001-) roughly centrally placed in the N portion. The graveyard is maintained and in good condition. A possible ogham stone (KK013-067003-) was found in an adjacent outhouse. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 March 2020

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