Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Oldcourt (bert Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldcourt (bert Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03713, -6.98283
- SMR number
- KD031-020002-
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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
Adjoining a church (KD031-020001-) at the N end of a short low pasture ridge overlooking a broad expanse of bog immediately to the N. According to Fitzgerald (1899-1902, 62-3), ‘”Killart” is the name of an obliterated churchyard … Some years back, a shopkeeper in Athy … took the farm on which the churchyard stood. … he dug up this old disused burial ground, and carted off human bones and all, for top-dressing his fields. He had no luck afterwards … The site of the burial ground is now a hollow, with two or three aged ash trees standing by.’ There are no visible gravemarkers: a rectangular hollow (base L 15m NW-SE; Wth 12m; D 1.4m) is open to the NW. A curving scarp line (traceable L 22m; H 0.8m) some 36m to the S may mark the graveyard’s S limits?
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 08 October 2013
References
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1899-1902e Miscellanea: an ancient foot-track of wooden planks across the Monavullagh Bog. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 3, 61-3.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.