Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Baronstown West (feighcullen Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baronstown West (feighcullen Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22095, -6.85611
- SMR number
- KD018-018001-
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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
According to Sheil O'Grady (1905, 465), it was '… called the Kells (probably from Cealtrach, i.e., an old burying-ground). This is the 'Caemeteria de Kill-balle-barruin', (cemetary of Baronstown) mentioned in Dr. Mac Geoghean's list' . In a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (KD018-018002-). No visible surface trace of the monument survives.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.