Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Nicholastown (grangemellon Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nicholastown (grangemellon Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.97234, -6.91658
- SMR number
- KD035-036001-
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 a low knoll in tillage. A large rectangular area (c. 70m ENE-WSW; c. 40m NNW-SSE) which was extended E-wards in modern times is enclosed by a stone wall (H 1.5m). Legible gravemarkers date from the 19th-century to the present, the graveyard being still in use. A ruined church (KD035-036----) lies NW of centre.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 20 December 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.