What is recorded here
Indicated is a graveyard on a slight rise in County Kildare where an oval stone wall encloses legible graves stretching from the 18th to the 20th century. A 19th-century Church of Ireland church stands in the northern sector, yet the site may also mark a medieval church, suggesting death and worship have occupied this ground for far longer than the current building implies. The wall, gate and varied tombs shape a place where memory remains visible instead of buried beneath forgetting.
On a slight rise. An oval area (58m E-W; 30m N-S) is enclosed by a well-built mortared stone wall with entrance gate at SE. Legible gravemarkers - headstones, kerbed and railed graves, obelisks, and table and recumbent tombs – date from the 18th to the 20th-century. While a 19th-century C of I church stands in the N sector, the graveyard may be the site of a medieval church (KD028-032----).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 13 February 2013
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- Recorded monument
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