Indicated — Kilvoydan

Situated in the E sector of a large ecclesiastical enclosure (CL017-119001-). This irregular pentagonal shaped graveyard (max. L 64m E-W; max. Wth 50m N-S) is defined by a double-faced masonry wall with a gate at the W. All of the legible grave markers are from c. 1900 onward. In the centre of the graveyard is the site of the medieval ‘Kilvoydan Church’ (CL017-119002-), of which there are no visible surface remains. Macnamara (1900, 29) found many stones from this church scattered in the graveyard and reused as grave-markers, leading him to conclude that the church must have been ‘of much architectural and archaeological interest’. In or before the early 19th century a 15th-century stone sculpture (CL017-119006-) was found in the graveyard (ibid., 29-30). In the 1960s or early 1970s a Romanesque corner corbel (H 0.56m; Wth 0.23m) carved with a man’s head (H 0.2m) was accidentally dug up in the graveyard (Harbison 1972, 5-6; Swinfen 1992, 90). Another architectural fragment (CL017-119005-) in the graveyard was identified as a window jambstone in 1999; it was subsequently moved to beside the cross (CL017-119004-) c. 18m to the E of the graveyard (Large 2011).   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott   Date of upload: 16-10-2025