What is recorded here

Indicated was a circular glebe in County Kildare, large enough to hold a church and graveyard before human ambition smoothed it into ordinary farmland. It disappeared in stages: first on paper, then in memory, finally under the plough. What remains is absence with a shape, a reminder that even sacred borders can be erased by patience and progress.

On a broad terrace on a long, gentle, W-facing slope in tillage. The 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map shows a large, sub-circular area (est. diam. c. 100m), defined by a curving field boundary, named 'Glebe', and containing a church site (KD013-005002-) and graveyard (KD013-005003-) in the NE sector. The latest ed. (1911) of the OS 6-inch map shows that the enclosing boundary had been removed between NNE and S. According to the landowner, the surviving enclosing element, which he remembered as 'a hedge', was removed c. 1985 during land improvement works. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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