Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Gaganstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gaganstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd
- Coordinates
- 53.12518, -6.66678
- SMR number
- KD029-013001-
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 a low wooded spur overlooking lower pasture to E, S and W, c. 180m S of the River Liffey. A completely overgrown sub-rectangular area (c. 45m E-W; c. 40m N-S) is enclosed by a low, ivy covered earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; Wth 3.3m; ext H 1m.). The interior rises up from the perimeter towards the centre (H 1m over N; 1.8m over S), just N of which lie the foundation lines of a levelled church (KD029-013----). There is a medieval graveslab in the E sector, and the remaining legible burials date from the18th to the 20th-centuries.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 04 September 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.