Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Turnerstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Turnerstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98998, -6.91936
- SMR number
- KD035-029002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 level ground overlooking a gentle E-facing slope in tillage. Not recorded on any edition of the OS mapping, and according to Fitzsymons (1906, 105), ‘… the surrounding burial-ground [ie. surrounding Whitechurch church (KD035-029001-)] is entirely obliterated.’ In 1986, the church was found to have been destroyed; an almost square patch of unploughed clay (18m E-W; 16m N-S) in a ploughed field marking its site, and no visible surface trace of an associated graveyard was noted(SMR file).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 17 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.