Kilgobnet

Kilgobnet,
Waterford,
Ireland

Coordinates: 52.120585, -7.644564

Summary
Graveyard Code: 
WA-KGBT
RMP/Site number: 
WA031-001001 & WA031-001002
Townland: 
Kilgobnet
County: 

Description

The parish church of Kilgobnet dedicated to St Gobnet of Ballyvourney, Co. Cork, within a subrectangular graveyard (dims. c. 70m N-S; c. 40-60m E-W). It is situated towards the bottom of a severe S-facing slope. It was described by John O'Donovan c. 1840 as a nave (dims. c. 13.2m x 9.5m) and chancel (dims. c. 5.1m x c. 4.8m), of which the S nave wall, a pointed chancel arch and the E gable with a small pointed window survived (O'Flanagan 1929, 40-41). The remains of a Romanesque doorway (ibid.) in the S wall of the nave, which was reputedly the inspiration for the W doorway of the RC church now just to the E, is no longer present. The nave is now reduced to a consolidated cairn of rubble (dims. 14.25m x 9.1m) and a fragment of the E gable survives. Cut-stone fragments, some with keel-moulding, and an octagonal font (dims. 0.58m x 0.58m; H 0.48m) with a circular basin (diam. 0.44m; D 0.21m) are at the site. Tobar Aphoona (originally called Tobergobnet), where a pattern was held on February 11th (Power 1937, 187), is in a quarry c. 110m to the NE and may be a flooded souterrain. (Power 1897b, 73-6). (www.archaeology.ie).

There are a fine collection, over 100 in number, of 18th century memorials within the graveyard. The majjority of these are located on a terrace to the west of the site of the medieval church.

Survey documents
A visual representation of the frequency of surnames: 

Graves

Photo Grave Name Surname
WA-KGBT-0026
  • -
  • Drummy
WA-KGBT-0027
  • Jim
  • Flynn
WA-KGBT-0028
  • Mary
  • Desmond
WA-KGBT-0029
  • Catherine
  • Walsh
WA-KGBT-0030
  • Thomas
  • O'Connell
WA-KGBT-0031
  • John
  • Whelan
WA-KGBT-0032
  • James
  • Wade
WA-KGBT-0033
  • Michael
  • Tracey
WA-KGBT-0034
  • Johanna
  • Tracy
WA-KGBT-0035
  • Edward
  • Flynn
WA-KGBT-0036
  • Bridget
  • Power
WA-KGBT-0037
  • Michael
  • Power
WA-KGBT-0038
  • Thomas
  • Power
WA-KGBT-0039
  • Mary
  • Cooney (nee Tobin)
WA-KGBT-0040
  • Patrick
  • Walsh
WA-KGBT-0041
  • James
  • Keane
WA-KGBT-0042
  • Patrick J.
  • Walsh
WA-KGBT-0043
  • Patrick
  • Dwne
WA-KGBT-0044
  • William
  • Daly
WA-KGBT-0045
  • Michael
  • Sweeney
WA-KGBT-0046
  • Ellen
  • Shea
WA-KGBT-0047
  • John
  • Foley
WA-KGBT-0048
  • Kate
  • Cashin
WA-KGBT-0049
  • Ellen
  • Christopher
WA-KGBT-0050
  • -
  • -

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