Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Donore, County Kildare, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.