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Church

Ardkill, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Ardkill, 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
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-

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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

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

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

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