What is recorded here

Grave Yd. is a living triangular graveyard at the southern tip of a low Kildare spur, where a ruined church still stands inside mortared stone walls and hedged banks. Legible markers date to the 18th century, but the place remains in use, suggesting that people have kept returning across centuries to lay others beneath the same overlooking fields. The walls do not so much contain the dead as mark the edge of a townland that has kept company with them.

Prominently located at the S end of a low spur overlooking mixed pasture and tillage to E, S and W. A triangular area is defined along the roadside to S by a mortared stone wall (L c. 70m) facing a low earthen bank, by a gently curving wall (L c. 70m), which also acts as a townland boundary, along the W, and by a low hedged, earthen field bank (L c. 95m) along the E. The interior contains a ruined church (KD026-010----). The earliest legible grave markers date to the 18th-century and the graveyard is still in use. (http://www.kildare.co/Graveyard-Details.asp?ID=K019 Accessed 23 August 2012) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 24 August 2012

A portal dolmen; Neolithic period. Its prominent location suggests it may have had ritual or territorial significance in the landscape.

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