Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballyshannon Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshannon Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08640, -6.82631
- SMR number
- KD028-058004-
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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
At the top of a long gentle, S-facing pasture slope. Contains a possible medieval church site (KD028-058002-). A motte (KD028-058001-) stands c. 50m to the E, and the levelled Ballyshannon Castle (KD032-003002-) stood c. 70m to the SSE. An outwork of the bastioned fort (KD032-003001-) which defended Ballyshannon Castle enclosed the church, but the graveyard is not depicted on the plan (Fitzgerald 1899-1902, 447). A subrectangular area (c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall with an entrance gate on the N side. Legible burial markers date from the 18th to the 20th-century.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 21 May 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.