Online Kilkenny Burial Ground Mapping

Kilkenny has about 400 graveyards and burial places with the county boundaries and these have been mapped and listed by Kilkenny County Council and Kilkenny City Council.   Information about these graveyards provides identification for each graveyard such as name, its address, the diocese and the barony in which it is located, the denomination and whether open or now closed for further burials.  Critically it lists historical details about the graveyard with bibliographic details should you need to check further.  The owner of the graveyard is also noted; this is important since most graveyards, once you have located them on the ground, have no welcoming notices giving either the name of the graveyard, nor the name of the owner.  Responsibility for a graveyard might be vested in the Board of Health, the Kilkenny County or City Council, the Church of Ireland, the Catholic Church or the Board of Works.   Some graveyards are on private property such as the one at Newtown Jerpoint.   And some ancient graveyards and burial plots are listed even if there are no longer any surface traces of burials
Historic graveyards form an important part of the social history of the county, and they contain a vast amount of architectural and archaeological artefacts.  The Historic Graveyard Grant Scheme policy is to conserve and protect historic graveyards and churches within county Kilkenny and to encourage their maintenance in accordance with conservation principles and as resources allow.  Most historic graveyards are afforded legal protection through the National Monuments (Amendments) Acts or the Planning Development Acts.
You can search online for a graveyard for up to 5 kilometres from any Kilkenny location or address, using the name of the town, townland or a street name.   The resultant overview map and graveyard list allows you to click on a graveyard for a further window to open showing a site location map, based on Ordnance Survey maps, as well as an aerial picture to further identify the precise location.  All this may be found at http://kilkennycoco.ie - then go to the A-Z directory, then Digital Mapping, then Google Mapping Allocations, then Burial Grounds Mapping Application.  This is a digitalised and interactive version of The Historic Graveyards of Kilkenny City and County: an inventory.  Kilkenny Local Authorities. December. 2005.  A Joint City and County Project.
It is a lot of fun using this finding aid and don't forget to take your boots with you if searching on the ground; many graveyards can be very uneven underfoot.