What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Kilkenny holds a medieval church at its centre, surrounded by a stone wall and a few buried lives. The eastern ground sits lower than the rest, as if people dug it out to make room for more death. An unfrequented burying ground in the early nineteenth century, it still faces west, watching the sky darken while the living forget to visit.

On a W-facing slope with a views limited to the W-N. A medieval church (KK027-046001-) is centrally placed within this small raised roughly oval-shaped graveyard (dims. c. 48m NE-SW; c. 28m NW-SE). It is enclosed by a stone wall and entered at the S end of the W side. The E end of the graveyard is considerably lower suggesting that it was dug out at some time. There are several burials in the interior, including a medieval graveslab (KK027-046003-) in the E portion of the graveyard. In the early 19th century the OS Letters (1839) it is described as, ‘an unfrequented burying ground attached’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 283 (95-6)). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 April 2023

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