Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Forenaghts Little, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forenaghts Little
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ch. (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.22106, -6.60964
- SMR number
- KD019-042----
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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 Synnott (1899-1902, 455-6), 'It appears … John de Lesse granted to [the Abbey of St Thomas, Dublin] the Church of 'Fornathbeg or Little Forenaghts. … No trace of the building, or even the site of the Little Forenaghts Church, can now be found …'. Synnott footnoted, 'Since writing the above, … I have discovered what greatly resembles the south and west walls of the old church on the west of the stable-yard (of Forenaghts House); the west wall abutting on the pond. About twelve feet from the top of the west gable wall are two narrow square-headed windows.'
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.