TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Graveyard

Kill West, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kill West, 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
Kill West
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.24789, -6.59082
SMR number
KD019-008008-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · 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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on rise of ground with Kill Moat (KD019-008004-) 277m to SSE. St. John's C. of I. church stands forming N boundary of rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 39m N-S x 55m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall. This 19th century C of I church probably stands on site of medieval church (KD019-008006-) with late medieval font (KD019-008005-) immediately N of W doorway into C of I church. Entrance gate at NW corner facing onto public road. Chamfered window mullion of medieval church lying on surface of graveyard to S of C. of I. church. A second fragment of a medieval traceried window was described in 2002 (McCabe 2002, 138), the location of this fragment was not identified. Graveyard contains memorials dating from the late 17th century onwards.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 30 October 2019

References

McCabe, B. 2002 Church and Graveyard at Kill, Co. Kildare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 132, 138-9.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Graveyard in Kildare All County Kildare records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map