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Graveyard

Hortland, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Hortland, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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