Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Feighcullen, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Feighcullen
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church
- Coordinates
- 53.23364, -6.91061
- SMR number
- KD017-009003-
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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 the OSL (Herity 2002, 68 (201)), 'The Parochial church (KD017-009003-) stands on the site of the old church' (KD017-009001-). The 19th century Parochial church stands in a graveyard (KD017-009003-) in the W sector of a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD017-009004-) which lies in a possible medieval field system (KD017-009002-). Church described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'Detached five-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1829, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-stage engaged tower (west) on a square plan supporting octagonal spire. Now disused. A church erected to designs by John Semple (1801-82) of Dublin (Craig 1990, 146-7) representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of County Kildare with the architectural value of the composition, 'a small but handsome structure' recalling the Semple-designed Saint Tiernan's Church (Kilternan) (1824-6) and Whitechurch Church (Whitechurch) (1825-7) in County Dublin, confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form, aligned along a liturgically-correct axis; the construction in a rough cut limestone offset by sheer dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship; the slender profile of the openings underpinning a "medieval" Georgian Gothic theme with the chancel defined by a cusped "East Window"; and the polygonal spire embellishing the roofline as a picturesque eye-catcher in the landscape' (NIAH Reg. No. 11901706; https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/11901706/feighcullen-church-feighcullen-feighcullen-kildare).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 21 July 2021
References
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
Herity, M. (ed.) 2002 Ordnance Survey Letters Kildare. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.