Place:


Ardkill  County Kildare

 

In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Ardkill like this:

ARDKILL, a parish, in the barony of CARBERY, county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (E.) from Edenderry, on the road from Mullingar to Naas and Kildare; containing 864 inhabitants. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Kildare, wholly impro-priate in the Marquess of Downshire; the tithes amount to £168. 17. 5 ½. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union of Carbery. At Dimtura is a school under the patronage of Viscount Harberton.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ardkill, in and County Kildare | Map and description, A Vision of Ireland through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/place/28870

Date accessed: 22nd May 2024


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