Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Commons (newtown Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons (newtown Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church in Ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.17177, -6.60243
- SMR number
- KD024-020----
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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
In a graveyard (KD024-020001-), on the Naas to Glendalough pilgrimage route, with an old laneway (KD024-032----) just to the N possibly forming part of that route. Named for St. Kevin, the church was part of the parish of the dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough in 1216. It is last mentioned in a visitation report of 1609 (O’Neill 2004-5, 438). Low, poorly preserved, grass-covered walls of mortared limestone and occasional tufa (max. H. 1m) define a rectangular structure comprising a dug out nave (min. 15.8m E-W; 6.5m N-S) and a possibly later chancel (9.6m E-W; 4.2m N-S). Stands on sloping ground with two buttresses against the N wall (downslope). Three cross slabs (KD024-020002-, KD024-020003- and KD024-020004-) and fragment of a baptismal font (KD024-020005-) were recorded here in 1985 (Healy SMR file).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 13 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.