Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Walterstown (nurney Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walterstown (nurney Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09758, -6.94914
- SMR number
- KD027-025001-
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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
In 1967, human remains, discovered when a field bank was bulldozed, were investigated by the National Museum of Ireland. Further burials were discovered in situ and appeared to be extended inhumations, orientated E-W, in unlined graves. No finds were recovered in association with the burials, but a medieval potsherd (13th to 15th-century) was recovered from disturbed earth nearby. The burials were in the immediate vicinity of a possible nunnery (KD027-025----) and may form part of an associated graveyard. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 2, 484)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 October 2012
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.