What is recorded here
Grave Yard in County Kildare holds headstones spanning the 18th to 20th century beside a lost altar tomb leg, marking a church that vanished before the east interior was quarried out. The rectangular ground still lies flanked by roads, preserving dead men and women while the building that served them disappeared into rubble and reuse.
A large rectangular area (dims. L c. 125 WNW-ESE; Wth c. 60) flanked by roads along the W and N, in level mixed pasture and tillage. When visited in 1987, it was noted that parts of the E-interior were quarried out, and there was no visible surface trace of a church. Headstones dated from the 18th to the 20th century, and amidst some rubble was the leg of an altar tomb.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 02 December 2011
A large prehistoric rectangular enclosure, possibly of Bronze Age date; its partial destruction by quarrying limits its archaeological significance.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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