What is recorded here

Haynestown holds a hidden church and graveyard inside an oval earthen bank, now vanished from the ground but still drawn on a 1908 map. The place sits at the south end of a narrow pasture ridge in County Kildare, small enough to walk around in a minute yet important enough to contain worship, death and memory. Two cist burials nearby suggest people were set into the earth before the church became a story. The land has erased its own marker, but the shape remains in knowledge: a room without walls, waiting to be remembered.

Although not recorded on the 1838 or 1939 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, a 1908 OS 25-inch map shows an oval area (est. diams. c. 45m N-S; c. 35m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank. Near the S end of a narrow but moderately steep-sided pasture ridge, and containing a possible church site (KD019-026001-) and a graveyard (KD019-026002-). No visible surface trace survives. 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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