What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Kildare holds a circular stone chamber where forgotten lives still breathe beneath the grass. Its cross-capped wall and ashlar gates suggest human hands shaped the edge of death itself. The chamber does not occupy the world, it completes the world by giving form to what is missing.

On the higher, N end, of a short, low spur at the centre of an early monastic enclosure (KD006-005001-). A roughly oval area (diams. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 45m NE-SW) is defined by a low, overgrown, but well-built, cross-capped, mortared stone wall, inside of which a grass path runs around the perimeter. The enclosing element may follow an older, Early Christian enclosure line. Ashlar-piered gates at SW give access and the legible grave markers date from the 18th and 19th century, and are concentrated to W, N and E of the medieval church (KD006-005003-) in the S sector. An ogham stone (KD006-005002-) was found in the NE sector (CUCAP ATA028, 1967; AYR049/050, 1969). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Early medieval monastic graveyard, 6th–10th century. Associated with a monastic enclosure, indicating a religious and communal site of local and possibly regional significance.

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