School: St John's Girls, Cill Choinnigh (roll number 11163)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Giolla Bríde
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0856, Page 248
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- Saint Maul's graveyard occupies an emience on the east side of the River Nore, near Greens Bridge. This old cemetery locally know as Tempul-na-Maul now occupies the site of the Church which was found in the year 487. The graveyard was enclosed and improved by Kilkenny Corporation. Alderman John Coyle Mayor 1889. It contains a few inscribed monuments (wie) which date back to 1769. St Mall was the mother of St Canice. Those who died of the plague were buried this graveyard.
Legate's Rath graveyard occupies an eminence in Legate's Rath East in a field called the "Churchfield". It contains crosses which are the work of very remote times and also a large Pillar Stone which marks the grave of a bishop who suffered death at the hands of persecutors and whose remains are buried there.(continues on next page)
