Knigh Graveyard Wall (TN014-051002-)3D Model
Situated on a slight rise in pastureland, medieval Knigh (An Cnaoi) parish church ruins (TN014-051001) forms the northern boundary of a roughly rectangular-shaped graveyard measuring 60m N-S by 53m E-W which is enclosed by a limestone wall containing 18th and 19th-century memorials. The graveyard is entered through a gateway at south-east with the date 1854 inscribed into the capstone of the gate pier. A stone stile is present immediately to the north of the dated gate pier. The parish graveyard stands in the townland of Knigh, parish of Knigh, diocese of Killaloe, barony of Ormond Lower in North Tipperary. The gate pier is built with ashlar masonry while the attached boundary wall is built from rubble. The stile allows people to enter the graveyard without using the gate by climbing over the stone steps protruding out from the face of the graveyard wall. From Middle English stile, style, from Old English stiġel (“stile, set of steps for getting over a fence”), equivalent to sty (“to ascend, climb”).
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