What is recorded here
Grave Yard in County Kildare is a D-shaped burial ground where a mortared stone wall still holds the edge of an old faith. The church stands north of centre with its font and memorial cross, while burials cluster south beneath markers legible from the 18th to 20th century. A holy well waits just outside to the west, as if death and grace had agreed to share one boundary.
In the SW sector of a possible Early Ecclesiastical Enclosure (KD029-005002-). A holy well (KD029-005003-) lies just outside to the W. A roughly D-shaped area (diam. c. 46m N-S) with a straight N side (L c. 47m E-W) is enclosed by a well-built mortared stone wall. A church (KD029-005002-) stands to N of centre and contains a font (KD029-005007-) and a memorial cross (KD029-005006-), and the graveyard also contains a cross base (KD029-005005-). Burials are concentrated to the S of the church and the legible burial markers date from the 18th-20th-century. (Fitzgerald 1912-14, 301)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 27 August 2013
Early Christian graveyard, 6th–9th century AD. Associated with a possible ecclesiastical site and holy well, indicating its religious and communal significance in the early medieval landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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