
What is recorded here
Indicated is a graveyard in County Kilkenny where a nineteenth-century Church of Ireland building stands inside a large rectangular wall, preserving an earlier medieval church and grave-slab. St. Scoheen's Well is caught in the south wall, while Freneystown castle watches from the high ground to the southeast. The place layers faith, memory and local identity across centuries, with older burial grounds still hidden beneath the present stones.
In upland river valley at the E end of a low ridge overlooking a steep river valley to the E and N, with an early medieval church (KK015-030001-) and graveyard (KK015-030002-) 85m to the E. A holy well known as St. Scoheen's Well (KK015-030006-) is incorporated into the S section of a 19th-century graveyard wall. Freneystown castle (KK015-031----) dominates the view from high ground 545m to the SE of the later medieval church and graveyard. A 19th-century C of I Church, built on and incorporating the medieval church, is located in the N quadrant of a large rectangular-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 34m N-S; 75m E-W) enclosed by a 19th-century wall (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.3m; wall T 0.45m). There is a medieval grave-slab (KK015-030007-) approx. 20m W of the W gable of the C of I Church, in the W quadrant of the graveyard. A possible earlier graveyard enclosure is visible as a low bank located inside the upstanding graveyard wall and is visible as a low rise of ground in SW quadrant of graveyard. All the memorials are of 18th and 19th-century date and are located in the W quadrant of the graveyard.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 14 March 2016
Portal dolmen; likely constructed during the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). Its location near an early medieval church and holy well suggests possible later ritual or spiritual reuse, highlighting a continuity of sacred landscape use from prehistoric to Christian times.
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Photo: A.-K. D. · CC BY-SA 4.0