Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilkea Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkea Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.93289, -6.90529
- SMR number
- KD037-037002-
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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
Fitzgerald records a Children's burial ground (KD037-037003-) and chapel (KD037-037002-), described an 'an oblong building ... in the middle of the field ... No headstones exist and the place is only used for the interment of unbaptised or stillborn children' (1906-8, 120-1). According to Barrett, 'aerial photograph (GB89.AG.16) shows an oblong positive cropmark that coincides with hachuring on the OS-6inch 1909 map and locates the site of the church'.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.