Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Palmerstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Palmerstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.23688, -6.62122
- SMR number
- KD019-014002-
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
Although the OSL (Herity 2002, 60 (176)) record, ' … in the graveyard … there is still burial', the site is not named as a graveyard on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. A well-maintained, roughly rectangular, roadside graveyard (dims L c. 50m NW-SE; Wth c. 30m NE-SW) contains a medieval church (KD019-014001-), the 'Flatesbury Monument' (KD019-014003-), a font (KD019-014004-), and a 19th century high cross marking the burials of the Bourke (Mayo) family, the most famous of whom was probably Richard Southwell, Sixth Earl of Mayo (1822-1872), who - apart from serving as Chief Secretary for Ireland three times - was appointed Viceroy of India, from where, following his assassination in 1872, he was apparently shipped home in a barrel of rum, and became known in village lore as 'The Pickled Earl". (Fitzgerald 1903-5, 257; Meagher 1979-80, 117)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.