Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Dunfierth, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunfierth
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38980, -6.83408
- SMR number
- KD004-005003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On the gentle W-facing slope of a low, narrow, N-S pasture ridge. A castle (KD004-006----) stood c. 60m to the E. A rectangular embanked area (dims L c. 50m E-W; Wth c. 40m; ext. H 1.5m) with an ivy-clad, dry-stone retaining wall at the base of the embankment along the S contains a medieval church (KD004-005001-) to W of centre. Legible burial markers dating to the 18th century and 19th century are concentrated to the S of the church, with more recent burials to the E. Numerous architectural fragments occur, some of which may have come from the castle.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.