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Graveyard

Blackhall (Newtown ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Blackhall, 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
Blackhall (Newtown ED)
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Kilsaintlucan Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Kilsaintlucan Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.18234, -6.60549
SMR number
KD024-013001-

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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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Prominently sited at the S end of a NNW-SSE pasture ridge with extensive sand/gravel pits to the N. Hachured as a rath-like circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 50m) on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map, and described by the OSL in 1837 (Herity 2002, 56 (165)) as, ‘a circular graveyard resembling a fort.’ It survives as a sub-rectangular area (ext. c. 60m E-W; c. 37m N-S) enclosed by an overgrown earthen bank with outer stone facing, and modern wire fencing. There is an entrance gate at S and the enclosing element has been truncated from S-W by a modern laneway, and where it also acts as a townland boundary. A ruined church (KD024-013----) lies at the highest point in the interior. Marked burials occur to the S of the church, and the earliest datable gravestones are of the 18th century, and there are also a number of uninscribed grave markers. According to local information (http://www.kildare.co/Graveyard-Details.asp?ID=K080 Last accessed 11 June 2012), this was also a famine graveyard connected with the fever hospital in Naas.

Compiled by: Geaóid Conroy

Date of upload: 11 June 2012

Nearby in the register

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

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