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Graveyard

Kilcock, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kilcock, 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
Kilcock
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.40110, -6.66700
SMR number
KD005-002002-

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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

On Church Lane, just N of the square in Kilcock village, and known locally as 'St Coca's Graveyard', it may occupy the site of a 6thC monastery (KD005-002----). The graveyard is sub-rectangular in plan (dims. L c. 50m NE-SW; Wth c. 40m), enclosed by a high wall (av. H 2m; T 0.5m) of roughly coursed, cross-capped, mortared stone and is entered through a gate at the W end of the S wall. The S two-thirds of the yew-planted interior is higher (H c. 1m) than the rest and contains the majority of burials, dating from early-18th to early-20th c. Traces of a levelled church (KD005-002001-) are visible just NE of centre. According to Simms (1999, 185) the graveyard was also used as a Children's Burial Ground (KD005-031----). Both Cullen (1999, 36) and Simms (1999, 184) refer to the presence of a now inaccessible, underground burial vault in the graveyard. (Rochfort 1999, 67-74)

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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