Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Brewel West, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brewel West
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.06126, -6.75173
- SMR number
- KD032-021001-
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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
In pasture on the lower NE slope of Brewel Hill. A large approximately rectangular graveyard (c. 80m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) is enclosed along the W, N and E by a hedged earthen bank and along the S by a stone wall with an entrance gate near the SE corner. The overgrown interior contains a levelled church (KD032-021----) to NW of centre. The NW corner of the graveyard is cut off by an apparently earlier broad earthen bank (traceable L 21m NNE-SSW; H 2m over NW; 0.8m over SE; Wth 8m), with a shallow fosse (D 0.8m; Wth 0.9m) along its E side. The remains of an earlier meandering earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; H 1.2m) are visible in the S half of the graveyard where a bank runs N inside and parallel to the graveyard's W enclosing bank, before turning E to cross the interior of the site. Burials appear to be concentrated around the levelled church and date from the 19th-century to the present.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 18 October 2013
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- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.