What is recorded here

Ten bare skeletons lay east to west in a Kildare sandpit during the late 1930s, stripped of grave goods and belonging to a forgotten church graveyard. Men filled the pit and levelled the soil, erasing the exact mark of that buried life. The disused ground still holds its dead beneath an ordinary pasture ridge, waiting for someone to remember what forgetting removed.

According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 23 (67)), 'The graveyard in which (the church, KD019-026001-) stood, has a burial ground fallen into disuse.' In 1939, Price (1935-45, 198-9) noted at least ten skeletons, orientated E-W and without grave goods, which had just been discovered in a sand-pit there. The pit was subsequently filled in and the ground surface levelled, and there are no visible surface traces of the graveyard, which may have lain in a ecclesiastical enclosure (KD019-026003-). Near the S end of a narrow but moderately steep-sided pasture ridge. Two cist burials (KD019-0009---- and KD019-058----) were also discovered in the immediate vicinity. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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