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County Kildare
Ireland
Civil Parishes
Kilkea
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
See Athy Civil Registration District BMD refs (vital records)
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KILKEA,
a parish, in the barony of KILKEA and MOONE, county of KILDARE,
and province of LEINSTER, 2¼ miles (N. N. W.) from Castledermot,
on the road from that place to Athy; containing
395 inhabitants. It
comprises 3207 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at
£1673 per annum.
The
principal seats are Milbrook, the residence of J. Green, Esq.; Kilkea
Lodge, of H. Green, Esq.; Kilkea House, of P. Dunne, Esq.;
and Kilkea Castle, of P. Caulfield, Esq. This castle was built in
1180, by De Lacy, and afterwards passed to the Earls of Kildare.
In 1414, the O'Mores and O'Dempseys were defeated here by the Lord
Justice. The castle was nearly rebuilt by Lord Kildare, in 1426, and now
belongs to his successor, the Duke of Leinster.
The
living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin, and in the patronage of
??? La Touche, Esq.; the rectory is impropriate in the Rev. Sir Erasmus
Borrowes, Bart.; the tithes amount to £210, of which £140 is payable
to the impropriator, and £70 to the vicar.
In
the Roman Catholic divisions this parish forms part of the union or
district of Castledermot.
About
30 children are educated in two private schools.
Near Kilkea Castle is a large conical mount covered with trees, and to the east of it are the remains of an old church.
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