Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballysax Great, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysax Great
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church
- Coordinates
- 53.11711, -6.80770
- SMR number
- KD028-032----
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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 (KD028-032001-). According to OMURETHI (1909-11, 99-100), the present C of I church was rebuilt in 1825, and the surrounding graveyard may contain the burial of Robert Nangle, d. 1615. This suggests there was a church here in the 17th-century, possibly on the site of an older, medieval church, no visible surface trace of which survives.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 13 February 2013
References
Omurethi 1909-11 Ballysax and the Nangle family. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 6, 96-100.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.