Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Oldcourt (bert Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldcourt (bert Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killart Church in Ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killart Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.03719, -6.98271
- SMR number
- KD031-020001-
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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
Adjoining a graveyard (KD031-020002-) at the N end of a short low pasture ridge overlooking a broad expanse of bog immediately to the N. In 1837, O'Conor (Herity 2002, 70 [207]), who co-compiled the OSL for County Kildare, commented '… there was a Church called Killart, (of which) only the vestiges, as I am informed, now remain.' Darby (1899-1902, 191), describing a possible moated site (KD035-005----) c. one mile to the S, records the local tradition that that monument was used as a place of refuge by monks from Killart and Kilberry (KD030-005----). No visible surface trace of a church survives, but subsurface remains may survive in a low grass-covered rectangular mound (base L 10m NW-SE; Wth 6.9m; surface L 8m NW-SE; Wth 4.5m; H 0.6m over N, E and S; 1.6m over adjoining graveyard to SW) which occupies the site.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 08 October 2013
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2002 Ordnance Survey Letters Kildare. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
Darby, M. 1899-1902, Miscellanea: The Core-ally, Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society, 3, 191.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.