Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Gilltown (gilltown Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gilltown (gilltown Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.10691, -6.71362
- SMR number
- KD029-016----
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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 an overgrown graveyard (KD029-016001-). In 1192 Inchbrislane [Gilltown] and Brannockstown [KD029-013----] were granted with Domnachmor (Yagae) [KD029-013----] to St. Patrick's. … In 1275, the Chapel of Gilltown or Kilton, alias Inchebrislane, belonged to the Cistercian Monastery at Baltinglass, which had a Magna Grangia [monastic grange] here in 1531 (IHS 1941, 39-40). The church is described as 'downe' in 1630, at the time of Bulkeley's Visitation (IHS 1941b, 80). The church has been levelled and a patch of uneven stony ground may mark it site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 06 September 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.