Graveyard in Glassely, County Kildare

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What is recorded here

On a short but moderately steep N-facing valley slope with a small stream flowing W just to the N. A trapezoidal shaped area (max. c. 48m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall, inside which an earlier grassed-over stone wall runs along the SE and SW sides. Contains a ruined church (KD032-037001-), fragments of a Fitzgerald chest tomb (KD032-037002-) a cross (KD032-037003-) and a Fitzgerald burial vault. Legible gravemarkers date from the 18th to the 20th-century.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD032-037004

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Aisling Hyland / Kildare Nationalist, www.kildare-nationalist.ie
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Maker not stated on source page, wanderyourway.com
Alex Passmore, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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