Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Blackrath, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blackrath
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kyle Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kyle Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.04603, -6.78742
- SMR number
- KD032-031001-
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 but moderately steep-sided pasture ridge. A roughly D-shaped area (c. 36m E-W) with a straight E side (L c. 26m) is enclosed by a low modern, mortared stone wall. The interior is generally higher (H 1m) than the surrounding ground, except between WSW and WNW where it is level with the outer ground. The interior is covered in long grass with the N-third having a lot of nettle growth. Traces of a ruined church (KD032-031----) are visible in the N sector, and legible gravemarkers date to the 18th-century.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 29 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 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.