Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Killeshin, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeshin
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- LA032-020007-
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to local tradition there was a village around the church (LA032-020002-) and moat (LA032-020001-) at Killeshin (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 31-2). According to the OS letters when the round tower (LA032-020003-) of Killeshin was being pulled down in the 18th century by a landlord the local people went to the summit of Knockarath hill, 'and there remained until they saw it laid prostrate. Some imagined that the huge steeple would by its fall so shake the earth as to knock down all the cabins of the village, and others that its stones would fly in every direction' (ibid., 30-1).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the Queen's County, collected during progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Typescript in 2 vols. Bray.