What is recorded here

Baronstown West once held a burial ground called the Kells, likely from Cealtrach, meaning an old burying-place. It may have lain inside an ecclesiastical enclosure, yet no visible trace remains on the surface today. The earth has taken back its markers, leaving only the name to hint at rows of graves, prayer and forgetting beneath what is now open ground.

According to Sheil O'Grady (1905, 465), it was '… called the Kells (probably from Cealtrach, i.e., an old burying-ground). This is the 'Caemeteria de Kill-balle-barruin', (cemetary of Baronstown) mentioned in Dr. Mac Geoghean's list' . In a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (KD018-018002-). No visible surface trace of the monument survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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