What is recorded here

Grave Yard is a living burial place on a narrow Kildare terrace where a ruined church still stands beside centuries of death. A small water basin set in the entrance gate suggests people continued to mark the boundary between the ordinary world and the dead. The hill, the road and the buried names remain connected through memory rather than forgetting.

On the roadside on a narrow terrace in the lower SW-slope of a moderately steep-sided hill. A possible tumbled coffin-rest (KD022-011002-) stands outside the entrance gate at SE, and the interior contains a much ruined church (KD022-011----) in the E sector. A small, slightly raised, oval area (diams. 32m N-S; 25m E-W; av. H 1m) is enclosed by a well-built, modern wall, built of thin stones. Burials cover the whole of the interior, the earliest legible inscriptions dating to the 18th century, and the graveyard is still in use. A small masonry pier or pillar (H 0.9m; L 0.5m; T 0.2m) attached to an entrance gate pier houses a small limestone stoup, concreted in place. The visible portion (dims. L 0.2m; Wth 0.2m; H 0.15m) contains a well-carved, water-filled, circular basin (diam. 0.13m; D 0.08m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 05 December 2011

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