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Church

Castlefarm (Mollahiffe ED), County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Castlefarm, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Castlefarm (Mollahiffe ED)
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.07102, -6.86840
SMR number
KD032-013----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In a graveyard (KD032-013001-). According to a 1943 Irish Tourist Association Survey (SMR file), the first church at Kilrush was built by St. Briga in the 5th-century but no visible surface trace survives. Later, a cell of the Augustinian Cartmel Priory in Lancashire was founded at Kilrush in or before 1201-02 when Cartmel was obtaining corn from Ireland. Kilrush appears to have been a large farming cell, with three to four canons, and not a conventual priory. In 1558, Kilrush was granted to the Earl of Ormond and then included a castle (KD032-014----), some messuages (houses with outbuildings and yards) and 360 acres of arable land (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 184). A very ruined and ivy clad nave and chancel structure may stand on the site of the earlier monastery. Only portions of the N and S sidewalls of the nave (traceable L 12.7m E-W; Wth 5.8m N-S) built of undressed rubble masonry, and its E gable wall containing a chancel arch (Wth 2.6m; H 2.9m) survive. Of the chancel (L 7.7m E-W; Wth 4.3m), only its E gable wall containing a robbed out window and the short returns of the N and S sidewalls survive. The interior contains many burials and a font (KD032-014002-).

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 16 October 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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