What is recorded here
Kyle Grave Yard holds a D-shaped memory on a Kildare pasture ridge, its straight eastern edge marking a boundary the land still remembers. Long grass and nettles swallow the northern traces of a ruined church, while legible eighteenth-century stones wait beneath the surface. The dead did not leave empty space; they shaped the soil, the silence and the reason the ridge remains set apart.
On a low but moderately steep-sided pasture ridge. A roughly D-shaped area (c. 36m E-W) with a straight E side (L c. 26m) is enclosed by a low modern, mortared stone wall. The interior is generally higher (H 1m) than the surrounding ground, except between WSW and WNW where it is level with the outer ground. The interior is covered in long grass with the N-third having a lot of nettle growth. Traces of a ruined church (KD032-031----) are visible in the N sector, and legible gravemarkers date to the 18th-century.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 29 October 2013
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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