Survey Data
Reg No
12006002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Graveyard/cemetery
In Use As
Park
Date
1890 - 1895
Coordinates
251565, 156257
Date Recorded
27/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Burial ground, opened 1893. Closed, 1968. Adapted to alternative use, 2000. Road fronted on a corner site.
Appraisal
A burial ground opened by the Kilkenny Poor Law Union (formed 1839) making a pleasing visual statement in a suburbanised street scene. NOTE: The burial ground was intended for pauper inmates of Kilkenny Union Workhouse whose graves were unmarked and the only headstones are two standard "Commonwealth War Graves" commemorating Private James Tobin (d. 1917) and Serjeant James Kavanagh (d. 1918) and a later headstone commemorating Mary Delaney (d. 1950).