Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilkea Lower, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkea Lower
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.95150, -6.87880
- SMR number
- KD037-021----
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5 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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
An undated note added to an OS 6-inch map in the National Library (NLI. MS 16H 34(23)), indicates the 'site of Vilero church'. Fitzgerald mentions a chapel called 'Kilcro' in this townland (FitzGerald 1906-8, 120-1). No visible surface trace.
Date of upload: 15 September 2016
References
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1906-8 The sites of two chapels near Kilkea Castle, [note]. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 5, 120-1.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.