What is recorded here
Grave Yard is a square stone enclosure on a Kildare ridge where a ruined church still holds three cross slabs and a font fragment. It sits beside Toberkevin and an old laneway that may have guided pilgrims toward Glendalough, linking death, prayer and distance in one small place. Later graves from the 18th to 20th century fill the same ground, suggesting the site never stopped being used.
On the crest of a low E-W pasture ridge. An almost square area (c. 50m E-W; c. 50m N-S) contains the ruins of a medieval church (KD027-023----) and a font (KD027-023002-). Burials occur both within the church and in the graveyard and date from the 18th to the 20th-century.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 31 August 2012
Medieval burial ground; associated with a church and font. Significance lies in its role as a religious and funerary site from the medieval period.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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