What is recorded here

Grave Yard surrounds the ivy-covered ruins of Herbertstown Church on a slight Kildare rise, preserving an L-shaped burial ground now reduced to overgrown soil and wooden fencing. Rabbit burrows beside the church still throw up skeletal remains, suggesting the dead never fully released the field or stopped participating in its ordinary life.

On a very slight rise in generally open mixed tillage and pasture. They ivy-covered ruins of Herbertstown Church (KD023-018----) stands in centre of a rectangular shaped graveyard. On the first ed. OS 6-inch map the church is shown standing in E quadrant of L-shaped graveyard with burial ground to W and N of church. Today the graveyard consists of an overgrown, roughly rectangular-shaped area (c. 33m N-S; c. 25m E-W) enclosed by wooden fencing with no visible grave markers. According to local information, skeletal remains can often be seen in upcast soil from rabbit burrows surrounding the church (pers. comm. Paddy Coleman 18/04/2019). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 April 2019

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