What is recorded here

Oldkilcullen stands on a steep Kildare hilltop where an Early Christian monastery and later medieval borough once clustered. A curving field boundary east of the church and graveyard may still trace the ecclesiastical enclosure, preserving the shape of a place that has been levelled, forgotten and repeated. The land remembers more than it admits.

On a moderately steep-sided hilltop (OD c. 150m), on the site of an Early Christian monastery (KD028-049001-) and later, medieval borough (KD028-049----). According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 4, 389), the possible line of an ecclesiastical enclosure may be preserved in a curving, but now levelled field boundary (visible on aerial photographs), to the E of a church (KD028-049005-) and graveyard (KD028-049011-), and also in the slightly curving line of the laneway to the N of the green. (CUCAP ATA072, BDU030, BDR033) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 May 2013

This site is an ecclesiastical enclosure associated with an Early Christian monastery and later medieval borough, likely dating to the early medieval period. Local tradition and historical context suggest it may have had religious significance, though specific folklore is not well recorded.

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