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Graveyard, burial ground in County Kildare (KD002-004----)

Burial ground
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What is recorded here

According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 34 (101)), the 'old graveyard (was) used as yet as a place of sepulture'. On a NE-facing pasture slope with a castle site (KD002-005----) c. 100m to the SW. An overgrown, triangular area (dims. L c. 26m along N; L c. 25m along E; L c. 35m along W) with a rounded apex to S and curving N-limits, is defined by a low, dry-stone wall, outside of which, along the N, a small tributary of the River Boyne flows NW. The interior is accessed through an iron gate on the E side and the oldest visible headstone is dated 1769. The burial ground appears to be disused.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD002-004

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Official monument number
KD002-004----
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  • Robin Pollard, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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  • Douglas P.Bermingham, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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  • Alex Passmore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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