Kilteel
Sign in to saveKilteel () is the name of a village, townland and civil parish located in the barony of South Salt, County Kildare, Ireland. The townland of Kilteel Upper contains the remains of a church with a decorated Romanesque chancel arch, the ruins of a 13th-century preceptory of the Knights Hospitaller and a well-preserved 15th-century tower house. The historic settlement is located on the southwest corner of the English Pale and served an important function as a border fortress during the medieval period.
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23 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Parish
- History
- Prehistory and Early Medieval Period
- Medieval Period
- Kilteel church
- Hospitaller preceptory
- Pale boundary
- Tower house
- Early Modern Period
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Population and landholding
- National school
- Royal Irish Constabulary barracks
- Catholic church
- The Kilteel Inn
- Mill
- Kilteel wood
- Ordnance Survey stations
- Sport
- See also
- References
- External links
Kilteel () is the name of a village, townland and civil parish located in the barony of South Salt, County Kildare, Ireland. The townland of Kilteel Upper contains the remains of a church with a decorated Romanesque chancel arch, the ruins of a 13th-century preceptory of the Knights Hospitaller and a well-preserved 15th-century tower house. The historic settlement is located on the southwest corner of the English Pale and served an important function as a border fortress during the medieval period.
== Geography == The village of Kilteel lies on a low northeast-southwest ridge at the western edge of the Wicklow Mountains. It is near the County Dublin border, around east of Naas and south-west of Dublin city centre.
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