Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Whitechurch, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitechurch
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd
- Coordinates
- 53.28747, -6.60405
- SMR number
- KD014-022005-
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
In a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (KD014-022002-), and containing a church (KD014-022001-) and a baptismal font (KD014-022007-). A holy well (KD014-022004-) lay immediately outside to the NW. The 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map indicates that the graveyard once extended further E (est. L c. 25m). A sub rectangular area (dims. L c. 60m E-W; Wth c. 50m N-S) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall (dims. H 1.4-1.6m; T 0.5m) and entered through a gate at S. Burials are concentrated to the S and the earliest legible grave marker is dated 1790.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.