What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Kildare holds the Sherlock family vault inside an unfenced churchyard near a possible tower house and mansion. The old church is gone, yet the wood still marks the place where generations were buried and remembered. What remains is not a grand monument but a quiet line of ownership, loss and continuity written into the earth.

In a small wood c. 100m N of a possible tower house (KD014-027001-) and mansion (KD014-027002-). According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 46 (141)), 'Within the precincts of the Churchyard, in which the old church (KD014-043001-) stood, and which lies now without a fence in an open field, is the vault of the Sherlock family'. In modern times the graveyard has functioned as a private burial ground for the family. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.