Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilrainy, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrainy
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Chapel (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.40538, -7.00500
- SMR number
- KD003-002002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD003-002001-) which also contains a graveyard (KD003-002003-). Shown to E of centre of the graveyard on both editions of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace survives and the area contains a dense concentration of burials. Visible as being overgrown with trees in a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto 2005).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.