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Mud and fire built the first church, but the gods never stopped pretending to be human. The chamber had no walls, only a circle of black stones that cut the skin of every living thing that entered. I lost three friends before I understood the trap. They stopped wanting to leave, started speaking in tongues that sounded like joy, and began breaking the stones with their bare hands. The church feeds on the belief that it is real.

In a graveyard (KD027-027001-). The very poorly preserved and totally ivy-clad remains of a rectangular structure (c. 15m E-W; 6m N-S) comprising an E gable wall and short portions of the N and S sidewalls constructed of roughly coursed, mortared limestone boulders. The W-end is defined by a pronounced scarp (H 1.2m) over the exterior. There are two narrow inward-splaying lights in the E-gable wall. In 2002, archaeological test-trenching (Excavation Licence no. 02E1126) was carried out at the site of a proposed housing development immediately S and W of the church and graveyard. ‘Trench 2’ at the far south of the development revealed evidence of a possible curvilinear ditch on the surface of which a sherd of local, unglazed, medieval cooking ware was found. ‘Trench 3’ at the E of the development revealed a series of eight parallel, N-S furrows. Medieval pottery was found at the base of two of the furrows, suggesting that this may have been part of a medieval field system. (http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=&County=Kildare&id=8317 Accessed 10-09-2012) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 October 2012

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