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Graveyard

Donore, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Donore, 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
Donore
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Relick Grave Yd
Latest-edition OS map
Relick Grave Yard (Disused)
Coordinates
53.25846, -6.76062
SMR number
KD013-023001-

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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

Described in the OSL (Herity 2002, 45) as 'a small piece of ground covered with grass (in the (middle) of a cultivated field) called by the Inhabitants of the place 'the Roilic' (burial ground) which it is said was formerly used as a place of interment'. Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular area (dims. L c. 80m E-W; Wth c. 60m), named 'Relick Grave Yd', containing a church (KD013-023----) and a Holy Bush (KD018-008-). At the top of a very gentle tillage slope. While not fully ploughed-out, its area is significantly reduced from that indicated on the 1838 map, and it survives as a low, grass covered, rectangular platform (dims. L 20m N-S; Wth 12-15m; H 0.4-0.6m)), which carries tramlines from heavy machinery passing across it. It contained a church (KD013-023001-) and a Holy Bush (KD018-008----).

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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