What is recorded here

Relick Grave Yd is a reduced grass platform in County Kildare, Ireland, preserved from a larger burial ground shown on the 1838 map. It still carries tramlines across its surface, while memory fills the lost width with unnamed dead, passing carts and the quiet certainty that even a small remaining patch can hold a whole life of loss.

Described in the OSL (Herity 2002, 45) as 'a small piece of ground covered with grass (in the (middle) of a cultivated field) called by the Inhabitants of the place 'the Roilic' (burial ground) which it is said was formerly used as a place of interment'. Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular area (dims. L c. 80m E-W; Wth c. 60m), named 'Relick Grave Yd', containing a church (KD013-023----) and a Holy Bush (KD018-008-). At the top of a very gentle tillage slope. While not fully ploughed-out, its area is significantly reduced from that indicated on the 1838 map, and it survives as a low, grass covered, rectangular platform (dims. L 20m N-S; Wth 12-15m; H 0.4-0.6m)), which carries tramlines from heavy machinery passing across it. It contained a church (KD013-023001-) and a Holy Bush (KD018-008----). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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