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Ecclesiastical site

Taghadoe, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical site, Taghadoe, 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
Taghadoe
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.35344, -6.61295
SMR number
KD010-014----

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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

A National Monument. According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 405), 'Taghadoe, Tech-tua [is] the site of a monastery founded by St Tua, alias Ultan the Silent: Folachtach of Tech-tua, abbot of Clonmacnoise, died in 770 AFM'. On a slight rise in otherwise open, level pasture. Geophysical survey results appear to confirm the existence of portion of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD010-014001-), while upstanding remains comprise a round tower (KD010-014002-) and a graveyard (KD010-014003-) which may have early origins but is probably at least partly associated with an RC Chapel site (KD010-014004-) and a 19th century church (KD010-014005-). No visible surface traces of an earlier church survive. (Fitzgerald 1894-5, 76, 86-94; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 372; Harbison 1975, 126; Lennox-Barrow 1979, 124-6)

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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