Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Cowanstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cowanstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.34895, -6.65296
- SMR number
- KD010-013002-
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
According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 11), 'There is a burial ground in this Parish (Taghadoe) called Coanstown burial ground … containing the ruins of an old church (KD010-013----)'. In open, gently undulating mixed tillage and pasture. A raised (H 1.2m), sub-rectangular area (dims. L 45m E-W; Wth 35m) is enclosed by a modern stone wall. Legible memorial stones date from 18th - 20th c.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.