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Recorded monument · KD022-029001 · Co. Kildare

Historic town at Greyabbey,kildare,tully East,tully West, Co. Kildare (KD022-029001)

On the Sites and Monuments Record.

143 planning applications in the last 10 years fall inside this monument’s zone of notification, and 17 An Coimisiún Pleanála cases touch it.

143
in the zone, 10 years
143
in the zone, all years
17
ACP cases in the zone
33
within 100 m, 10 years

Zone of notification 38.38 ha

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Planning applications in the zone of notification 143 applications in the last 10 years

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Appeals in the zone of notification 17 with An Coimisiún Pleanála

Building work started in the zone of notification 26 commencement notices

The record KD022-029001

SMR number
KD022-029001
Class
Historic town
Townland
Greyabbey,kildare,tully East,tully West, Co. Kildare
Named on the OS map
Kildare
National record
National Monuments Service record for KD022-029001

On a low ridge at the W-edge of the Curragh. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 3, 196-265), the name Kildare is derived from Cill Dara, ‘the church of the oak’, a tree which, according to the 7th century writer Cogitosus, stood beside St. Brigid’s early-6th century monastery (KD022-029002-). The Annals of Clonmacnoise record that in 1012, ‘all the Towen of Kildare was burnt by a thunderbolt but one house’, suggesting a secular, urban-type settlement had developed in association with the monastery. A borough was established at Kildare before 1176, and became the principal manor of Strongbow's Lordship in north Leinster, and the earliest fortification may have been a motte (KD022-029025-). By the end of the 13th century, Kildare contained a castle (KD022-029004-), a cathedral (KD022-029005-), and both Franciscan (KD022-029006-) and Carmelite friaries (KD022-029007-). A parliament was held there in 1309-10. In 1316, John Fitzthomas, newly created earl of Kildare, was granted the town and castle. Bradley et al (op. cit., 199) suggest a population of about 1,000 in the town in the early-14th century. In 1515, the town received a new charter, and a weekly market and burgesses were licensed to enclose the town with walls and a fosse (KD022-029009-). It was the scene of an engagement in 1598, during the Nine Years War, when it was so badly damaged that it was described by Fynes Moryson (1907, ii, 351) as, ‘altogether disinhabited’. The cathedral was ruined and roofless in 1604, and a number of properties were described in 1607 as ‘ruinous’ or ‘lately burned’. However, the town recovered to become an important garrison site during the Confederate War of 1641-53. Around 1659, the Census of Ireland noted a population of 359 (Pender 1939, 395). (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 320; Orpen 1911-20, 374-381; Gilbert 1884, ii, 339) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 19 January 2012

Other records in the same zone

Buildings of Ireland (NIAH) within 100 m

  • 11817047 Bank of Ireland · Regional rating · 8 m
  • 11817046 house · Regional rating · 18 m
  • 11817048 Barrett House · Regional rating · 19 m
  • 11817001 monument · Regional rating · 28 m
  • 11817003 Kildare Market House · Regional rating · 36 m
  • 11817045 house · Regional rating · 38 m
  • 11817100 Virginia Lodge · Regional rating · 45 m
  • 11817002 1798 Monument · Regional rating · 47 m
  • 11817101 cinema · Regional rating · 52 m
  • 11817109 outbuilding · Regional rating · 54 m

Source: National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record · fetched 27 Sept 2026

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