placenamesKilbride
Cill Bhríde
A headstone survey and limited excavations illuminate the burial ground and its surrounding fields.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bhríde · Irish · main form
- Kilbride · English · main form
- Manor Kilbride · English · main form
Place & story
The dated memorials
Edmond O’Donovan’s 2010 archaeological account describes Manor Kilbride’s old cemetery as approximately circular, with an extension to the south. It recorded 166 legible headstones. The earliest dated example commemorated John Simpson, who died in 1767. That is a date for a surviving memorial, rather than for the foundation of the burial ground. [2]
A boundary beyond the graves
Investigations preceded proposed cemetery extensions. Follow-up testing in 2011 identified a ditch at Manor Kilbride which O’Donovan interpreted as an apparently medieval field boundary. The trenches produced no early historic burials or human remains. The result documents land enclosure beside the cemetery without establishing the age or full extent of the burial ground itself. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Civil parish
- Kilbride
- Within
- Kilbride
- Coordinates
- 53.19877, -6.46292
- Mapped area
- 4.32 km²
- Logainm ID
- 54866 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbride. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 2010:838 Manor Kilbride, Rathbran and Leitrim cemeteries, C389 · Edmond O’Donovan
- 2011:643 Manor Kilbride and Rathbran, C389/E4382 and C498/E4372 · Edmond O’Donovan
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-08-13. How this page was prepared.