St. John’s Graveyard

St. John’s Graveyard is a cemetery in Kilkenny, Leinster. St. John’s Graveyard is situated nearby to the ruins Maudlin Castle, as well as near MacDonagh Railway Station.

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Type: Cemetery
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Description: graveyard on the Dublin Road in Kilkenny, Ireland
Also known as: “Saint John’s Cemetery”, “Saint John’s Churchyard”, “Saint John’s Graveyard”, “Saint Stephen’s Graveyard”, “St John’s Cemetery”, “St John’s Graveyard”, and “St Johns Churchyard”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kilkenny MacDonagh railway station and Kilkenny Castle.

Kilkenny MacDonagh railway station

Railway station

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Kilkenny railway station serves the city of Kilkenny in County Kilkenny. It is a station on the Dublin to Waterford intercity route. and was given the name MacDonagh on 10 April 1966 in commemoration of Thomas MacDonagh, one of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916. Kilkenny MacDonagh railway station is situated 140 metres north of St. John’s Graveyard.

Kilkenny Castle

Photo: Tolivero, Public domain.

Kilkenny Castle is a castle in Kilkenny, Ireland, built in 1260 to control a fording-point of the River Nore and the junction of several routeways. It was a symbol of Norman occupation, and in its original 13th-century condition, it would have formed… Kilkenny Castle is situated 480 metres southwest of St. John’s Graveyard.

Maudlin Castle

Ruins

Photo: John Stephen Reid, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Maudlin Castle is a tower house which formed part of a medieval hospital and National Monument located in Kilkenny, Ireland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Johnswell and Bennettsbridge.

Johnswell

Locality

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Johnswell is a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland. On the village green is a powerful spring and well dedicated to John the Baptist which was traditionally the venue for a local "pattern" of note, while the moat north of the village was the site of St John's Eve bonfires. Johnswell is situated 7 km northeast of St. John’s Graveyard.

Bennettsbridge

Village

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Bennettsbridge is a village in County Kilkenny in Ireland. It is situated on the River Nore 6 kilometres south of Kilkenny city, in the centre of the county. Bennettsbridge is situated 8 km southeast of St. John’s Graveyard.

St. John’s Graveyard

Category: burial
Location: Kilkenny, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.65322° or 52° 39′ 12″ north

Longitude

-7.24379° or 7° 14′ 38″ west

Open location code

9C4JMQ34+7F

OpenStreetMap ID

way 97540272

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=grave_yard

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=roman_catholic

Wikidata ID

Q119296262

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