What is recorded here
Grave Yard in Commons, County Kildare, is a small stone-walled enclosure holding a ruined church, three cross slabs, a font fragment and later grave markers. It sits beside an old laneway that may have joined the Naas to Glendalough pilgrimage route, with Toberkevin holy well nearby. The place layers medieval devotion, eighteenth-century burial and quiet forgetting into one breath.
A church (KD039-006----) stands within a subcircular graveyard (diam. c. 60m) enclosed by a modern wall. Most of the gravestones are eighteenth century, but there are are two granite graveslabs of uncertain date, each inscribed with a Latin cross.
Date of upload: 6 September 2016
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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