Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Knights Hospitallers
Killybegs Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killybegs Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27613, -6.73430
- SMR number
- KD013-019001-
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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
According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 337), this site was confirmed to the Knights Hospitallers by Pope Innocent III in 1212. In 1333-4, William was chaplain 'of the house of Kilbeg' which was likely at this time to have been 'a limb' of Kilmainham (the priory and chief house of the Knights in Ireland). It was probably farmed out in the 14th century becoming a 'liber hospes'. In 1540, an inquisition listed its possessions as; two messuages, 180 acres arable, 100 acres common, with tithes and alterages, value £13 6s 8d; over and above this the manor and rectory were held from Kilmainham at £10 by David and Edward Sutton and a stipendary priest served the church. The surviving remains comprise a church (KD013-019002-), graveyard (KD013-019003-) and a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (KD013-019005-). It is also, reputedly, the original location of a font (KD013-019004-)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.