What is recorded here

Grave Yard is a disused triangular burial ground in County Kildare, Ireland, where the oldest visible headstone is dated 1769. It sits on a NE-facing pasture slope beside a castle site, bounded by a low dry-stone wall and a small tributary of the River Boyne. The place still feels occupied because people laid their dead there, marked them, and left the slope to keep its own quiet company.

According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 34 (101)), the 'old graveyard (was) used as yet as a place of sepulture'. On a NE-facing pasture slope with a castle site (KD002-005----) c. 100m to the SW. An overgrown, triangular area (dims. L c. 26m along N; L c. 25m along E; L c. 35m along W) with a rounded apex to S and curving N-limits, is defined by a low, dry-stone wall, outside of which, along the N, a small tributary of the River Boyne flows NW. The interior is accessed through an iron gate on the E side and the oldest visible headstone is dated 1769. The burial ground appears to be disused. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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