{"id":1068,"date":"2012-06-01T13:52:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:35:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T09:35:13","slug":"st-marys-church-historic-graveyard-opens-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"St. Mary&#8217;s Church Historic graveyard opens to the public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Historic St Mary&#8217;s Church graveyard was officially opened to the public by our Mayor on the 1st June 2012.<\/p>\n<p>A detailed conservation plan for the graveyard was completed in 2003.\u00a0 The opening of the graveyard is a step in the overall conservation plan for the Church and Graveyard. The church was founded some time before 1205 within\u00a0 the historic core of Kilkenny City.<\/p>\n<p>There will be tours of the graveyard available through out the summer 2012.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1070\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1070\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1070\" title=\"june 1 2012 016\" src=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-016.jpg 480w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-016-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Path through graveyard. Copyright : Keep Kilkenny Beautiful<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1069\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1069\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1069\" title=\"june 1 2012 015\" src=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-015.jpg 480w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-015-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the Historic graves within the churchyard. Copyright : Keep Kilkenny Beautiful<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1071\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1071\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1071\" title=\"june 1 2012 019\" src=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-019.jpg 480w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-019-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newly opened gateway on to St Marys Lane. Copyright : Keep Kilkenny Beautiful<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1073\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1073\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073\" title=\"june 1 2012 017\" src=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-017.jpg 640w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-017-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/june-1-2012-017-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Graveyard has a large variety of plant species which are to be protected. Copyright: Keep Kilkenny Beautiful.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1072\" style=\"width: 627px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Tour-in-st-Marys-graveyard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1072\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1072\" title=\"Tour in st Mary's graveyard\" src=\"https:\/\/keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Tour-in-st-Marys-graveyard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Tour-in-st-Marys-graveyard.jpg 617w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Tour-in-st-Marys-graveyard-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tour underway in Graveyard by Patrick Neary Archaeologist. Copyright : Keep Kilkenny Beautiful<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Historic St Mary&#8217;s Church graveyard was officially opened to the public by our Mayor on the 1st June 2012. A detailed conservation plan for the graveyard was completed in 2003.\u00a0 The opening of the graveyard is a step in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=1068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,9,10],"tags":[70,120,129,134,257,359,411,427,473],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biodiversity","category-cityscape","category-kilkenny-city","category-landscape","category-news","tag-biodiversity-2","tag-centre","tag-church","tag-city","tag-graveyard","tag-marys","tag-park","tag-plants","tag-saint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}