Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ardkill, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardkill
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.36045, -6.93104
- SMR number
- KD008-009001-
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
The church stands to the SW of centre in a graveyard (KD008-009002-), on the site of a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD008-009003-). A poorly preserved, ivy-clad, rectangular structure (int. dims. L 16m E-W; Wth 6m) is comprised of E and W gable walls built of randomly coursed limestone blocks (wall T 0.9m), with the E gable wall supported externally by bonded buttresses. The N wall is reduced to a grassed-over stony spread (Wth 2m; int H 0.4m; ext H 0.9m), and only a short, low section of the E end of the S wall survives (L 4.8m; H 1m). The W gable wall contains a rubble-built, round-headed window.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.