Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Waterstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Waterstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.24333, -6.69125
- SMR number
- KD019-002002-
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
According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 45 139)), 'Burial is still continued in the graveyard'. On level ground at the top of a long and very gentle W-facing slope in tillage, near the W bank of the River Liffey. A ruined church (KD019-002001-) stands in the NE sector. Recorded on the latest ed. (1938-9) of the OS 6-inch map as a partially enclosed (along E and S), rectangular area (dims. L c. 70m E-W; Wth c. 45m), its extent has been significantly reduced since (dims. L 36.5m E-W; Wth c. 24m). Now enclosed by rail and post fencing, it survives as a slightly raised area defined by a low scarp (H 0.5m), with no obvious trace of grave markers.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.