Church in Kilcasheen

Within Kilcasheen graveyard (CL065-026----). Westropp (1912, 103) lists ‘Kilcashin’ as having a church and graveyard and later (ibid., 105) notes that ‘Kilcashen, a part of MacMahon’s estates was granted to G. Earl of Kildare in a patent of May, 1601, but the building is not named’. Large (2010) noted and photographed the remains of a rectangular structure. The low remains of a rectangular structure lying within an undelimited graveyard may be the remains of the church. A length of wall foundation at NW (L 5.6m; Wth 0.8m; max. H 0.5m) is double faced while at NE is a single wall of stones (L also 5.6m) set on edge (largest: H 0.5m; Wth 0.8m; T 0.25m). One set stone (H 0.25m) may be part of the SE wall. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 7 December 2022