Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Hortland, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hortland
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.37382, -6.77991
- SMR number
- KD004-018003-
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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
Partly incorporated into a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD004-018001-). A D-shaped area (int. diam. 28m E-W) with straight W side (L c. 18m) is defined by a broad, deep ditch (max Wth 7.4m; max D 2m) and a low, narrow, external earthen bank (Wth 0.8m; ext. H 0.4m) NW-E-SW, and by a low scarp (H 0.9m) along the W, from where two concentric arcs of wooden fencing extend the burial limits W (L 19m E-W) into the interior of the older enclosure (KD004-018001-). Legible grave markers commemorate burials from the late 17th century to the late-20thC. See Cullen and O'Leary (1999, 66-69) for plan and inventory of burials. The interior contained a font (KD004-018004-).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.