Survey Data
Reg No
12006017
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Archaeological, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Graveyard/cemetery
In Use As
Graveyard/cemetery
Date
1650 - 1950
Coordinates
251225, 156001
Date Recorded
27/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Graveyard with various cut-stone markers, pre-1699-c.1950, having random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site.
Appraisal
A picturesque graveyard forming an appealing feature in the streetscape on the road leading out of Kilkenny to the south-east. Having origins in a fourteenth-century leper hospital the grounds are of special significance as the location of a seventeenth-century Catholic chapel, thereby representing an early ecclesiastical site in the locality: furthermore it is believed that fragments survive spanning the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, thereby emphasising the archaeological importance of the site. The graveyard remains of additional importance for the associations with a number of Kilkenny's foremost dignitaries or personalities while a collection of cut-stone markers displaying expert stone masonry identify the considerable artistic design value of the site.