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Graveyard

Oughterard, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Oughterard, 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
Oughterard
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.27784, -6.56559
SMR number
KD015-007004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

Prominently sited on a moderately steep-sided pasture ridge with extensive views in all directions. A roughly rectangular area (dims. L c. 60m E-W; Wth c. 40m N-S) contains a round tower (KD015-007003-) and a medieval parish church (KD015-007005-). Legible burial markers date from the 18th C; the earliest recorded commemorates a death in 1700: 'This burial place belongeth to, John Daniel Bacon, for his posticity. Here liet the body of, Thomas Bacon, who departed this life, 3rd March 1700, aged, 83 years.' (A. Ryan. 'A list of graveyard transcriptions from Oughterard Graveyard', Co. Kildare Online Electronic History Journal, Kildare County Library and Arts Services.)

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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