What is recorded here

Kilbride's graveyard vanished beneath a modern housing estate, leaving only a cross-slab and local memory to mark the buried church. The 1907 map still draws a semicircular curve where the grave enclosure may have stood, while the neighbouring Glebe field preserves the name of a lost religious place. Homes now cover the dead, but the road-side cross still rises beside them, proving that the estate is not new and that Kilbride remembers what its streets have forgotten.

Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. The modern housing estate which now occupies most of the site is believed locally to be built on the site of a church and graveyard. Not visible at ground level. The 1907 OS 6-inch map shows an approximately semicircular curve in the field boundary which may represent the line of an enclosure and the adjacent field is named 'Glebe' on the 1838 edition. A cross-slab (H 1.22m), said to be situated in the graveyard (O'Flanagan 1928, 28), stands to the E of the estate between it and the road. It has an irregular cross in relief on the upper part of one face flanked under the arms by two raised bosses. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 01 February 2013

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