Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Forenaghts Great, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forenaghts Great
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.22367, -6.60240
- SMR number
- KD019-024002-
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On the landscaped grounds of Furness House. A roughly square (dims. L c. 40m; Wth c. 40m), tree-clad area, no longer used for burial. Synnott (1969, 467) recorded two 18th century tombstones here. The graveyard contains Furness Church (KD019-024001-) and a piece of prehistoric rock art (KD019-024003-).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.