What is recorded here

Indicated occupies the east end of a Kildare church, a seventeenth-century chamber seven metres long where Colley family members still rest beneath plaques from 1705 and 1710. One plaque has lost its lettering to time, turning a named dead person into an unknown shadow inside the same marble room. The chamber does not advertise itself; it waits at the church’s heart, large enough to swallow a congregation’s breath and old enough to have watched the village forget why it built the room at all.

These 18th century monuments have been assigned individual record numbers: the mausoleum is designated KD008-001007- and the two commemorative plaques it contains are the Colley plaque dated 1710 (KD008-001008-) and an illegible plaque (KD008-001009-), while a third plaque, also Colley, dated 1705 and mounted on the church wall is KD008-001010-. None are given separate Inventory entries but all are mentioned in the entry on the church KD008-001005-. The original E end of the church (KD008-001005-) is now occupied by a large 18thC mausoleum (int. dims L 7.7m N-S; Wth 3.35m) containing two plaques (KD008-001008- and KD008-001009-) commemorating Colley family members. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.