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Church

Kilcock, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Kilcock, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilcock
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church
Latest-edition OS map
Church (Site of)
Coordinates
53.40109, -6.66714
SMR number
KD005-002001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

According to Cullen (1999, 36) this may have been the church mentioned in 1303 in an Ecclesiastical Commissioners Report as being capable of accommodating 90 people, and which may have been given into the control of the Knight's Hospitallers. Located to NE of centre in a graveyard (KD005-002002-). Known locally as 'St Coca's Church', it may occupy the site of a 6thC monastery (KD005-002----). Traces of the levelled church may survive as a slightly raised, rectangular area (dims L c. 18m E-W; Wth c. 6m; H 0.2-0.5m), at the NE edge of which a short length of walling (traceable L c. 3m; Wth 0.65m) composed of small blocks of mortared stone, projects through the sod cover. This may have been original location of the decorated medieval font (KD005-029----) now located in the nearby 'St Patrick's', 19th century Catholic church. The 1st ed. (1838) OS 6-inch map representation of a roofed church in the S corner of the graveyard may be a cartographic error?

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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