Like the graveyard at Bobsville (County Meath) this graveyard is built on a mound. It can be clearly seen in the centre of a large flat field on the lefthand side of the road that heads west from Colbinstown.
In Borlase's Dolmens of Ireland (1897) this site is the only entry for County Kildare in the rather limited gazetteer section in Volume II, so I was very surprised to realise that I'd not heard of it anywhere else. In his description this mound has a thin slab blocking a passage, but the passage certainly isn't visible today, although there are two slabs on the east and west sides.
There are many authentic-looking standing stones among the gravestones and some very new looking ones ... especially the ones with scratched in ogham. On the east side of the mound there is a 10m stretch of kerb visible and another length on the northeast side.
To tie in the day I was able to see the clump of tree on the top of Brewel Hill to the north that surround the stone circle there. This just wet my appetite for vsiting Brewel Hill next.
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