Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Moone, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moone
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97929, -6.82538
- SMR number
- KD036-042----
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Shown on 5 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
The earliest settlement at Moone, which is now a small village, was the ecclesiastical site dedicated to St Colmcille, for which the earliest references are in the eleventh century (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 3, 324-42). The Irish name for the town 'Maoin Colm Cille' means 'the property of St Colmcille'. The borough was established in the thirteenth century, and a charter was granted to Moone c. 1223 which included a number of special privileges for the burgesses, including restrictions on outside merchants trading in the town (Aois 1946, 246-50). The same charter indicates the presence of a castle, a hospice, and mills, and a church of some importance. There are few references to the town after the thirteenth century, although there was a garrison or castle here in 1580 (Hamilton 1867, 266), and the Down Survey (1655-6) showed two crosses and mill at Moone.
Date of upload: 5 September 2016
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.