Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Donadea Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donadea Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- G. Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.34208, -6.74693
- SMR number
- KD009-014004-
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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 a very gentle S-facing slope in the former Aylmer family demesne, now Donadea Forest Park, and c. 100m N of Donadea Castle (KD009-015----). A rectangular area (dims. L c. 70m N-S; Wth c. 40m E-W) is enclosed by a high, well built masonry wall with an entrance gate near the NE corner. Possibly occupying the site of an Early Christian church (KD009-014002-), the graveyard also contains an early-17th century church (KD009-014001-), a 19th century Church of Ireland church which houses a fine, 17th century Aylmer effigial tomb (KD009-014003-) and an octagonal font (KD009-014005-), while a second font (KD009-014006-) lies nearby outside. Sparsely distributed burials marked by headstones and a few flat slabs are concentrated around the church ruins.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.