Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Taghadoe, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Taghadoe
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.35324, -6.61305
- SMR number
- KD010-014003-
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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
National Monument No. 578. On the site of a possible early monastery (KD010-014----) founded by St Tua (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 405). On a slight rise in otherwise open, level pasture. A roughly oval area (diams. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW), higher (H 1.5m) than the surrounding ground and enclosed by a modern wall contains a round tower (KD010-014002-) an RC Chapel site (KD010-014004-) and a 19th century church (KD010-014005-). While visible grave markers are concentrated in the SE sector, geophysical survey suggests that the whole graveyard contains interments, as may the 19th century church (M. Byrne, Unpublished MA thesis, NUI Maynooth, 2005).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.