Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Kilglass, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilglass
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39538, -6.97363
- SMR number
- KD003-007----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The OSL (Herity 2002, 33) records a second-hand report that, '… there was an old burial-place in Kilglass townland …'. In 1954, inhumation burials of seven individuals were discovered in a sandpit. Three burials had been disturbed, but four could be examined. All were extended inhumations in unprotected graves with the skeletal remains orientated NE-SW. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 2, 333-6) The sandpit was subsequently extended and the burial area may have been dug away.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.