What is recorded here

Killart, an obliterated churchyard at the north end of a low pasture ridge in County Kildare, was dug up and carted off for top-dressing by an Athy shopkeeper who then suffered bad luck. The grave is now a rectangular hollow, fifteen metres long and twelve wide, open to the northwest with aged ash trees standing beside it. A curving scarp line thirty-six metres south may mark its southern limit, but no gravemarkers remain to confirm what the earth swallowed or the fields consumed.

Adjoining a church (KD031-020001-) at the N end of a short low pasture ridge overlooking a broad expanse of bog immediately to the N. According to Fitzgerald (1899-1902, 62-3), ‘”Killart” is the name of an obliterated churchyard … Some years back, a shopkeeper in Athy … took the farm on which the churchyard stood. … he dug up this old disused burial ground, and carted off human bones and all, for top-dressing his fields. He had no luck afterwards … The site of the burial ground is now a hollow, with two or three aged ash trees standing by.’ There are no visible gravemarkers: a rectangular hollow (base L 15m NW-SE; Wth 12m; D 1.4m) is open to the NW. A curving scarp line (traceable L 22m; H 0.8m) some 36m to the S may mark the graveyard’s S limits? Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 08 October 2013

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