Kilkea

Coordinates: 52°56′52″N 6°53′34″W / 52.94778°N 6.89278°W

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Kilkea Cill Chá
Village
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Kilkea (

R418 regional road from Athy to Tullow

passes through the village.

Memorial outside the village

House in Kilkea

History

Formerly the land of the Ó Tuathails (O'Toole), after the

Norman invasion, Sir Walter de Riddlesford built a motte and bailey castle there about 1180. It is part of the barony of Kilkea and Moone. Walter de Riddlesford's granddaughter, Emmeline Longespee, married Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly in 1273, and so the land passed to the Geraldine Earls of Kildare. Its importance as a town diminished after the rebellion of "Silken Thomas"

, the 10th Earl of Kildare, in 1534.

People

Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922), Antarctic explorer, was born and spent his childhood at Kilkea House.
Lorcán Ua Tuathail (1128–1180), Archbishop of Dublin, was born in Kilkea

See also

References

^ "Cill Chá/Kilkea". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 14 October 2021.

External links

Media related to Kilkea at Wikimedia Commons
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