Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Glassely, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glassely
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.03178, -6.86878
- SMR number
- KD032-037004-
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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 short but moderately steep N-facing valley slope with a small stream flowing W just to the N. A trapezoidal shaped area (max. c. 48m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall, inside which an earlier grassed-over stone wall runs along the SE and SW sides. Contains a ruined church (KD032-037001-), fragments of a Fitzgerald chest tomb (KD032-037002-) a cross (KD032-037003-) and a Fitzgerald burial vault. Legible gravemarkers date from the 18th to the 20th-century.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 October 2013
References
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1912-14, Glassealy and its tenants. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 7, 82-117.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.