Killegar Church Cemetery
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Killegar Church Cemetery

Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland

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    Enniskerry, County Wicklow Ireland
    Coordinates: 53.20606, -6.18207
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The name Killegar was written as Kilathegair on ancient records, meaning Church of Agar's Ford. Killegar was first mention in 1220 when Archbishop Henry de Londres named Thomas de Cravill second Chancellor of St Patrick's, Dublin, and rector of Killegar. The ruins are believed to have been built in the 900's with extensions added after 1100 using ballast that may have come from a Viking ship, and at present consist of two parallel walls built of common surface granite, lime and sand mortar. These walls are 22 feet long, 7 feet high, 2 feet thick, and 13 feet asunder. There are no windows, but the northern wall has four small holes running through it, and the south side two similar holes. The most exciting feature of Killegar are the unusual slabs found at the site. These slabs, first noticed in 1781, and are now called Rathdown slabs, and are known only in the barony of Rathdown (south county Dublin and North Wicklow). There is a slab from Ballyman on exhibition in the National Museum of Ireland in the Viking section, as these slabs were carved by Christian Vikings who settled in the area long after their original invasion. Killegar church probably existed prior to the Viking invasion – perhaps associated with Glendalough or Dublin dioceses, and was used as a place of worship in Viking times, and through the Norman invasion of the twelfth century. It was involved in the to-and-fro of land ownership in the post Norman era and is mentioned in the sixteenth century just before the Wingfield Grant to Powerscourt.
The name Killegar was written as Kilathegair on ancient records, meaning Church of Agar's Ford. Killegar was first mention in 1220 when Archbishop Henry de Londres named Thomas de Cravill second Chancellor of St Patrick's, Dublin, and rector of Killegar. The ruins are believed to have been built in the 900's with extensions added after 1100 using ballast that may have come from a Viking ship, and at present consist of two parallel walls built of common surface granite, lime and sand mortar. These walls are 22 feet long, 7 feet high, 2 feet thick, and 13 feet asunder. There are no windows, but the northern wall has four small holes running through it, and the south side two similar holes. The most exciting feature of Killegar are the unusual slabs found at the site. These slabs, first noticed in 1781, and are now called Rathdown slabs, and are known only in the barony of Rathdown (south county Dublin and North Wicklow). There is a slab from Ballyman on exhibition in the National Museum of Ireland in the Viking section, as these slabs were carved by Christian Vikings who settled in the area long after their original invasion. Killegar church probably existed prior to the Viking invasion – perhaps associated with Glendalough or Dublin dioceses, and was used as a place of worship in Viking times, and through the Norman invasion of the twelfth century. It was involved in the to-and-fro of land ownership in the post Norman era and is mentioned in the sixteenth century just before the Wingfield Grant to Powerscourt.

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