Photos: Old Kilcullen Graveyard

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File contributed by: Anna Ryan annaryan001@hotmail.com
January 11, 2009, 8:27 am

PHOTOS: OLD KILCULLEN GRAVEYARD

Location,
Travel straight through the village of Kilcullen and after a
mile and a half turn left at the 2nd green bollard. The
graveyard is about two miles on this road on the left hand
side.

The round tower in the graveyard were used as refuges and as
a storehouse during the Norse raids in the 9th and 10th
century A.D. ad served also as watch towers and Belfrays
during the 1798 insurrection in the course of a
successful Irish stand at this point the upper portion of
the tower suffered much damage.