Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Coffin-resting stone
Knavinstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knavinstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17566, -6.97743
- SMR number
- KD022-011002-
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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
On the roadside outside the entrance to a graveyard (KD022-011001-). A long, ivy clad and partially tumbled, stone built, rectangular structure (L 3m; Wth 1m; H 0.8m) may be the remains of a coffin rest.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 05 December 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.