School: St John's Girls, Cill Choinnigh (roll number 11163)

Location:
Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Giolla Bríde
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0856, Page 250

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0856, Page 250

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: St John's Girls, Cill Choinnigh
  2. XML Page 250
  3. XML “Local Graveyards”
  4. XML “Local Monuments”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.
    (continued from previous page)
    Transcription guide »
    By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
  2. In St John's old church yard stands several old monuments mostly altar shaped ones dating from the ninth and tenth century. Here lies the bodies of several parish priest of St Johns. There are two or three vaults in it also.
    St Malls the oldest one dates from 1796. St Mall or Mella was mother of St Canice from which the city took its name, the word Kilkenny meaning Church of Canice.
    Rathcoole in Sandfordscourt
    The oldest monument here dates from 1732. It contains many altar tomb stones.
    Bán fada in Radestown
    The oldest monument here
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.