What is recorded here
Grave Yard in County Kildare holds a fortified medieval church, an Early Christian cross-slab, a medieval baptismal font and a 17th century Latin cross inside a square stone wall. The graveyard has been surveyed and some 50 inscriptions, 18th century to modern, are recorded. It is a place where centuries of burial, worship and memory remain visible together on a narrow terrace in pasture.
On a narrow, level terrace in a long, gentle SW-facing slope, in pasture. A square area (dims. L c. 50m; Wth c. 50m) is enclosed by a stone wall and contains the ruins of a fortified medieval church (KD019-039----), an Early Christian cross-slab (KD019-039002-), a medieval baptismal font (KD019-039003-) and a 17th century Latin cross (KD019-039004-). The graveyard has been surveyed and some 50 inscriptions, 18th century - modern, are recorded (McCabe 1996, 106-17).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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