Kilnaspic Chapel- where the Kinsella's worshipped and where Thomas Kinsella, father of John Kinsella, is buried



Kilnaspic Chapel is in Mooncoin Parish, Diocese of Ossory.
Irish "Coill Na Easpag" meaning "Bishop's Wood."

An online inquiry led me to a note from June Long, a descendant of a neighbor of Simon Kilmartin (Gilmartin) whose family were neighbors of John Kinsella and Margaret Grace in Barronswood. The Griffith's Valuation shows them sharing 166 acres of farmland- John Kinsella, James Kinsella, and Simon Kilmartin (Gilmartin.) She told me that her father showed her where Thomas Kinsella, John Kinsella's father and his wife were buried, in the Kilnaspic Cemetery near Barronswood in Clogga. His memorial was erected by his son, Thomas Kinsella (John's brother) who lived in Waterford at the time. She said that John Kinsella and Margaret Grace were evicted sometime between 1850-1855 and went to the poorhouse in Waterford. She also knows where the original house was, which is now just a crumbling wall. We later visited Mrs. Gilmartin in Ireland and she showed us the land, adjacent to her own, and stones from the Kinsella cottage. Her husband, who had passed, had carried on the story of their Kinsella neighbors and knew where their graves were in the Kilnaspic cemetery.



The first chapel there was a small thatched building built around 1750. The next chapel was built in the early 1800. The chapel used today is named St. Killogue's Church and was built in 1866. The new church is on a slope of the Walsh hills, the older churches were at the foot of the hill.

In earlier days there was a chapel at nearby Tubbrid. The ruins and graveyard are still there.










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