Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Moortown (Ballysax East ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moortown (Ballysax East ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- GraveYard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cemetery
- Coordinates
- 53.09885, -6.78746
- SMR number
- KD028-053002-
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A large unenclosed, sub-rectangular graveyard (KD028-052002-) is depicted by a broken line (c. 70m NNW-SSE; c. 50m ENE-SSW) on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. The N portion is shown to have been enclosed on the current ed. (1939-40) of the map, which also shows the S portion partially enclosed by a bank and named ‘Rath Nua’ (KD028-052001-), which may have contained a church (KD028-052003-). On a moderate N-facing slope. The sub-rectangular graveyard (c. 40m ENE -WSW; c. 26m NNW-SSE) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall. Legible gravemarkers date to the 19th and 20th-century, with most concentrated in the E-half of the graveyard.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 22 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.