Graveyard

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope, which falls toward a small stream. Kilpatrick House lies c. 145m due E. Annotated Annotated ‘Kilpatrick graveyard (Disused)’ on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map and depicted as a rectangular-shaped earthwork. Site of Kilpatrick church (WM025-028----) located in centre of ecclesiastical enclosure (WM025-028002-) which may have been used as burial ground. No surface remains visible of any memorials or grave markers in area where church and graveyard is depicted on OS 6-inch maps.
Graveyard described as a subrectangular-shaped area enclosed by a low earthen bank. The bank rises barely above the interior on the E, S and W sides where it is almost reduced to a scarp. It is well defined on the exterior, except where a modern field fence and drain runs NNW-SSE along the E side. There are three slight humps of unknown significance within the interior which may represent the sod covered remains of a church site (WM025-028----). Where conjoined, the bank which forms the S side of the larger enclosure (WM025-028003-), overlies the N side of the smaller enclosure. There is a slight fosse along the S side of this bank which is within the interior of the small enclosure, suggesting that the larger enclosure was constructed after the smaller one. Monument is visible as a subrectangular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.

See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 05 September 2019