What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Limerick holds generations beneath a square stone boundary, centering the 1759 Church of Ireland church and its older medieval roots. The graveyard is not a forgotten patch but a living address where St. Beagán, Sir William King, and ordinary dead people still belong to the place. Its upstanding markers, cast-iron gates, and layered church walls suggest that Kilpeacon has kept remembering long after its makers stopped speaking its name.

Multi-period Church of Ireland church built on site of medieval church (LI022-018001-) of Kilpeacon dedicated to St. Beagán, anglicised Peacon (Ó Riain 2011, 93-4). Present church described by the National Inventory Architectural Heritage as a 'Freestanding cruciform-plan Church of Ireland church, built in 1759, incorporating fabric from an earlier church with addition of transepts in 1819-20 by the Board of First Fruits. Projecting chancel and vestry to east elevation added in 1867. Monument to Sir William King inside church. Graveyard to site with upstanding grave markers. Rubble limestone boundary walls with cut limestone gate piers flanking double-leaf cast-iron gates' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; Reg. No. 21902214). Church stands in centre of square-shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 41m N-S x 38m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall accessed from entrance gate in N wall. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 02 January 2019

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