Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Castlefarm (nethercross By., Kilsallaghan Ed), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlefarm (nethercross By., Kilsallaghan Ed)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Davids Church (on site of Church)
- Coordinates
- 53.47640, -6.31814
- SMR number
- DU011-011001-
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Shown on 4 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
The present church is a Board of First Fruits structure (1812) which occupies the site of a medieval chapel (Lewis 1849, 169). In 1197 St. David's church was gifted to St Thomas's abbey in Dublin. It is also mentioned in the 'Ecclesiastical Taxation of Ireland 1302-6 (Sweetman & Handcock, 1886). In the late 18th-century the gable end of the earlier church was still standing (Price 1942, 42; Clinton, M.2005). Wall footing visible to the south of the church.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 02 January 2015
References
Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An eighteenth-century antiquary: the sketches, notes and Diaries of Austin Cooper, 1759-1880. Dublin.
Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An Eighteenth Century Antiquary. Falconer, Dublin.
Clinton, M. 2005 The history and archaeology of the parish of Kilsallaghan. Past, present and future. Kilsallaghan Residents Heritage Association.
Sweetman, H. S. and Handcock, G. F. (eds.) 1886 Calendar of documents relating to Ireland Vol. 5, 1302-1307. London. Historical Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.