What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands on a slight rise above a flat landscape, enclosing the parish church of Kilbride within rough stone walls. Headstones marked from 1701 to the present line the soil, while a forgotten slab may still hide the name of Rev. Robert Ford, who died in 1609. Two ornamental crosses vanished around 1830, leaving behind a quiet gap in the memory of the place.

Situated on a slight rise in a level landscape. The parish church of Kilbride (ME045-025----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 50m NE-SW at SE to c. 65m NE-SW at NW; c. 40m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls. The headstones date generally from c. 1800 to the present. All the headstones have been recorded (Moore and Kenny 1977) and some have dates as early as 1701, but the recumbent slab commemorating Rev. Robert Ford, parish priest of Dunboyne who died in 1609 (Cogan 1862-70, 1, 193) is not identified. Cogan (ibid. 191) also says that two ornamental crosses disappeared from the graveyard c. 1830. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 April, 2015

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