What is recorded here

Burial Ground is a small medieval graveyard beside Kilmademoge church on a steep rounded hillock in County Kilkenny. It was first marked without a wall, then enlarged and enclosed by the Kilkenny Board of Guardians, pulling the church from the edge into the middle of the place. The land may have held bodies for generations before anyone drew a line around it, and the wall came later to keep the dead company visible.

On top of a steep rounded hillock in steeply undulating countryside. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map the medieval church (KK014-042001-) of Kilmademoge is located on the N edge of a oval area (dims. c. 30m N-S; c. 35m E-W) annotated 'Burial Ground' which is outlined by a dashed line, this indicates that the burial ground was not physically enclosed. The OS Letters (1839) refer to it as, 'a small burying ground on the south [of the church]' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 36 (12)). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 463) the graveyard was, 'walled in many years ago by the Kilkenny Board of Guardians', at which time it appears to have been enlarged (dims. c. 32m N-S; c. 43m E-W), with the church now N of centre within the sub-oval shaped enclosing element. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 June 2020

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