St Lachtain's RC Church and graveyard

Freshford,
Kilkenny,
Ireland

Coordinates: 52.731161, -7.397959

Summary
Graveyard Code: 
KK-LTRC
Townland: 
Freshford Lots
County: 

Description

Catholic Church of St Lachtain and St Nichol is a detached five-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, dated 1844. It is built on site of earlier Catholic chapel, pre-1840, with single-bay three-stage gabled projecting higher entrance 'tower' to west on a square plan, and single-bay double-height lower chancel to east on a half-octagonal plan having two-bay single-storey sacristy to north-east. Renovated, 2004. It was sponsored by the Eyre family of nearby Uppercourt House for Bishop William Kinsella and Reverend William Hart a monument church in a robust Gothic Revival style built to designs prepared by William Deane Butler.

Graves

Photo Grave Name Surname
KK-LTRC-0001
  • Wm
  • Hart
KK-LTRC-0002
  • Tobias
  • Rossiter Walsh
KK-LTRC-0003
  • John
  • Shee
KK-LTRC-0004
  • Patrick
  • Holland
KK-LTRC-0005
  • Seamus
  • Henry
KK-LTRC-0006
  • Thomas
  • Bowe
KK-LTRC-0007
  • Martin
  • Comerford
KK-LTRC-0008
KK-LTRC-0009
  • William
  • Dowling
KK-LTRC-0010
KK-LTRC-0011
  • Wm
  • Dowling
KK-LTRC-0012
  • J
  • Thomas
  • Murphy
  • Milford
  • Eyre (Esqr)
KK-LTRC-0013
  • JAMES
  • JULIA
  • BIRCH
  • BIRCH
  • BIRCH
KK-LTRC-0014
  • JAMES
  • SHORTALL
KK-LTRC-0015
  • MAYER & CO
KK-LTRC-0016
  • ELLEN
  • THOMAS
  • PATRICK
  • CAHILL
  • CAHILL
  • CAHILL
KK-LTRC-0017
  • PATRICK
  • THERESA
  • BRENNAN
  • BRENNAN
KK-LTRC-0018
  • M DEAN
  • COMERFORD