Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Fontstown Lower, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fontstown Lower
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05232, -6.89148
- SMR number
- KD031-014001-
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
At the top of a long gentle W-facing pasture slope. Contains a ruined church (KD031-014----) and a font (KD031-014002-). A well-maintained rectangular area (c. 50m E-W; c. 35m N-S) contains numerous burials, the earliest legible of which date to the 19th-century.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 07 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.