What is recorded here
Killalee Church vanished beneath its own graveyard, leaving only buried walls and the memory of a building that once stood at the centre of the buried town. The name changed from Kelilin to Kilelie de Donaghmore and later Kililleene, but the place kept its shape: a church, a grave field, and a gate near St. John's. What is missing is not a failure of record; it is the ordinary fate of small Irish churches, swallowed by time, reuse and forgetting.
No surface remains of medieval church of Killalee which probably stood in the centre of Killalee graveyard (LI005-027002-). Westropp gives the following details about Killalee Church; 'Kelilin, 1410, Kilelie de Donaghmore, 1614. Kililleene, 1657 (D. S. (A) 13). Site -Only the graveyard remains near St. John's Gate' (Westropp 1904-5, 364-5).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 3 October 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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