Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilteel Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilteel Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.23186, -6.52439
- SMR number
- KD020-007010-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a minor valley through which a small stream formerly flowed SW just to the N, and on the site of the early monastic foundation of 'Cell céli críst', where a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers (KD020-007003-) was subsequently founded. Contains the ruins of a church (KD020-007002-) which, upon excavation (Manning 1982, 173-229), was found to be the result of several building-phases dating from the Early Christian through the Romanesque and high medieval periods to the 17th c. A section of the Pale Boundary (KD020-008----) runs nearby, to the S and W. A roughly rectangular area (dims. L c. 40m NE-SW; Wth c. 35m NW-SE) is enclosed by a stone wall. Manning (op cit 213-16) identified 23 headstones, one recumbent stone and an iron cross, and recorded all legible inscriptions. The dates on the headstones ranged from 1714 to 1954.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
Manning, C. 1981-2 Excavation at Kilteel Church, Co. Kildare. Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society 16, 173-229.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.