Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Mainham, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mainham
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- G. Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.31512, -6.69784
- SMR number
- KD014-006002-
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
A large D-shaped area (diam. c. 100m E-W) with a straight W side (L c. 90m) is defined by a low, mortared, stone wall with an entrance gate at the N. A fortified church (KD014-006001-) stands to E of centre in the interior and the earliest legible burial markers, dating to the 18th century, are concentrated to the S of the church, where there is also a cross-inscribed stone (KD014-006003-). Modern burials extend beyond the enclosing wall to the W and N. Immediately outside the graveyard wall at S is the 'Browne Mausoleum' (KD014-006004-) dated 1743, which Fitzgerald (1899-1902, 260-64) has recorded in some detail.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.