What is recorded here

Graveyard in Walterstown (nurney Ed) lies in County Kildare, Ireland, beside a possible nunnery where unlined east-west burials wait beneath ordinary soil. In 1967 a bulldozer cut through a field bank, exposing bones that the National Museum of Ireland investigated. A broken medieval potsherd emerged from disturbed earth nearby, hinting that women may have prayed, died and been forgotten there before memory faded.

In 1967, human remains, discovered when a field bank was bulldozed, were investigated by the National Museum of Ireland. Further burials were discovered in situ and appeared to be extended inhumations, orientated E-W, in unlined graves. No finds were recovered in association with the burials, but a medieval potsherd (13th to 15th-century) was recovered from disturbed earth nearby. The burials were in the immediate vicinity of a possible nunnery (KD027-025----) and may form part of an associated graveyard. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 2, 484) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 October 2012

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