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Grave Yard

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Grave Yard in County Kildare remains a living boundary where old stone and new grief meet. Its trapezoidal pasture holds a church and the faded footprint of the Knight's Hospitallers, while burials cluster south and west as if the dead still choose their quarters. The south gate admits the living into a place where centuries do not end but overlap.
In open, level pasture. A roughly trapezoidal area (dims L c. 60m N-S; Wth c. 55m E-W) is enclosed by a stone wall which appears to follow the line of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (KD013-019005-), and is entered through a gate at S. The interior contains a church (KD013-019002-) and is the site of a religious house of the Knight's Hospitallers (KD013-019001-). Burials are concentrated to the S and W of the church, with a few also to the N and E, and the graveyard is still in use. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
A possible ecclesiastical enclosure, likely medieval in date; its significance lies in its potential association with early Christian settlement or burial activity in the region.

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