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Killua Churchyard Cemetery

Clonmellon, County Westmeath, Ireland

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    Coordinates: 53.65711, -7.00421
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Located in the township of Knock Killua. This site was originally a medieval churchyard, ca. 1500, built on the site of an earlier church. Constructed of rubble limestone with dressed stone surrounds to the square-headed, ogee-headed and pointed-arched window and door openings, it was altered in the early nineteenth-century to resemble the remains of a medieval Gothic cathedral, serving as a 'sham ruin' or folly associated with the Killua Castle, one of a number of follies associated with this estate. This folly would have created a picturesque vista, being on an elevated site, and would have been clearly visible from the south and east elevations of Killua Castle. This work was probably carried out by Sir Thomas Chapman, who carried out extensive works on the Killua Castle estate in the early nineteenth-century. The graveyard contains a number of grave markers, some very finely carved, of the Chapman Family of Killua Castle, the earliest of which is of early eighteenth-century date. This feature should be viewed as being important part of an eighteenth and nineteenth century demesne landscape as well as being a site of archaeological importance.

Located in the township of Knock Killua. This site was originally a medieval churchyard, ca. 1500, built on the site of an earlier church. Constructed of rubble limestone with dressed stone surrounds to the square-headed, ogee-headed and pointed-arched window and door openings, it was altered in the early nineteenth-century to resemble the remains of a medieval Gothic cathedral, serving as a 'sham ruin' or folly associated with the Killua Castle, one of a number of follies associated with this estate. This folly would have created a picturesque vista, being on an elevated site, and would have been clearly visible from the south and east elevations of Killua Castle. This work was probably carried out by Sir Thomas Chapman, who carried out extensive works on the Killua Castle estate in the early nineteenth-century. The graveyard contains a number of grave markers, some very finely carved, of the Chapman Family of Killua Castle, the earliest of which is of early eighteenth-century date. This feature should be viewed as being important part of an eighteenth and nineteenth century demesne landscape as well as being a site of archaeological importance.

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  • Added: 8 Jul 2016
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2617410