What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Kildare holds a church, baptismal font and burials dating from 1790 inside a mortared stone wall. A holy well sits just outside to the northwest, while the lost eastern section suggests a larger community gathered there before the boundary shrank. People may have come for baptism, prayer and burial, moving from living water to sacred ground in one breath.

In a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (KD014-022002-), and containing a church (KD014-022001-) and a baptismal font (KD014-022007-). A holy well (KD014-022004-) lay immediately outside to the NW. The 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map indicates that the graveyard once extended further E (est. L c. 25m). A sub rectangular area (dims. L c. 60m E-W; Wth c. 50m N-S) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall (dims. H 1.4-1.6m; T 0.5m) and entered through a gate at S. Burials are concentrated to the S and the earliest legible grave marker is dated 1790. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Medieval ecclesiastical cemetery, associated with a church, holy well, and baptismal font, indicating a significant religious site from the later medieval period. Its location within a possible ecclesiastical enclosure suggests continuity of Christian worship and burial practices in the area.

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