What is recorded here

Grey Abbey and its graveyard occupy low-lying ground south-west of Kildare town, a rectangular place where Franciscan stone still stands beside burials marked from the 19th century. The abbey’s own walls form part of the grave yard’s boundary, as if the living church and the dead had stopped pretending to be separate. Outside the west wall a possible holy well waits in the dark, giving the place the smell of water, prayer and forgotten names.

On low-lying ground to the SW of Kildare town (KD022-029001-) and containing Grey Abbey, a Franciscan Friary (KD022-029006-). A possible holy well (KD022-030----) lies outside the graveyard’s W wall. A roughly rectangular area (L c. 95m E-W; Wth c. 75m) enclosed by a mortared stone wall, the SW limits of which are formed by the S wall and W gable wall of the Grey Abbey. The earliest legible burial markers appear to date to the 19th century. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 9 February 2012

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