What is recorded here

Graveyard in Naas West, County Kildare: seven buried bodies lay east of a possible Dominican friary, and two women’s bones surfaced later in an Abbey Street trench. The dead kept their own distance from the living street, waiting under soil until excavation drew them back into sight.

In 1995, archaeological testing (Licence no. 95E0042: www.excavations.ie) in advance of a small, private development uncovered the skeletal remains of some seven individuals c. 30m E of the presumed location of a possible 17th century Dominican friary (KD019-030039-). The burials were interpreted as probably representing an associated graveyard. Further archaeological monitoring (Licence nos. 95E0283 and 96E0011: www.excavations.ie) of telecommunications trenching along the length of Abbey St., which borders the site along the E, recovered the redeposited, disarticulated skeletal remains of two adult females. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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