What is recorded here

St. Michaels Church stands lost inside a small raised graveyard in County Kildare, its eastern and southern wall foundations still marking the shape of a building that no longer has a roof. A granite font base, pierced like a coarse medal, serves as a headstone, turning the centre of Christian life into a boundary for death. The church may have poured water over infants before it stopped pouring life into the neighbourhood, leaving behind a flat rectangle of soil where certainty once gathered.

Traces of foundations of E and S walls of church, situated within a small slightly raised rectangular graveyard (KD040-018001-) (dims. 23.5m NW-SE x 16.5m NE-SW). Church is referred to in Repertorium Viride (OSL 1837, 38). A circular, perforated font base (KD040-018002-) of granite is used as a headstone. Aerial photograph (CUCAP BGH 45) shows graveyard located in NW corner of complex of small rectangular fields extending to E, an oval enclosure and traces of two possible trackways. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

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