Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Nurney (nurney Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nurney (nurney Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.09592, -6.94831
- SMR number
- KD027-027001-
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
On the gentle S-slope of a shallow E-W valley, through which a small stream flows W c. 60m to the N. A possible nunnery (KD027-027001-) lies c. 160m to the NNW. A very overgrown rectangular area (c. 55m E-W; c. 40m N-S) contains a ruined medieval church (O27-027----). Older, 18th and 19th-century burials are concentrated to the S of the church, while more modern burials surround it. In 2002, archaeological test-trenching (Excavation Licence no. 02E1126) was carried out at the site of a proposed housing development immediately S and W of the church and graveyard. ‘Trench 2’ at the far south of the development revealed evidence of a possible curvilinear ditch on the surface of which a sherd of local, unglazed, medieval cooking ware was found. ‘Trench 3’ at the E of the development revealed a series of eight parallel, N-S furrows. Medieval pottery was found at the base of two of the furrows, suggesting that this may have been part of a medieval field system.
(http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=&County=Kildare&id=8317 Accessed 10-09-2012)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.