Killegar Church (near Enniskerry)

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Killegar Church Near Enniskerry County Wicklow

From Ireland in ruins website - https://irelandinruins.blogspot.com/2011/08/old-killegar-church-co-wicklow.html

Killlegar is situated West of the Scalp and this Celtic church lies in the middle of a graveyard. Like Kilmacanogue Church (qv) the first mention of Killegar is in 1172 in Strongbow’s charter. In this charter it is spelt “Celladgair”. In the book of Leinster it was discovered a reference to St Finbarr of Killegar. In 1225 Killegar, was a prebend of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin.

The church’s nave internally measures 24 ft in length by 13 ft 6 in in width, while the chancel measures 13 and a half ft by approximately 6 to 6 and a half ft in width. The church was recorded by Liam Price as being built of regular courses of medium sized granite boulders. Killegar also contains several of the old graves stones known as the Rathdown slabs.

For more information go to – Ireland In Ruins: Old Killegar Church Co Wicklow

Turner, Kathleen If you seek Monuments, A guide to the antiquities of the Barony of Rathdown, Rathmichael Historical Society.
Scott, Canon George Digby The Stones of Bray, Cualann Publications, Bray, 1984

Price, Liam The Price Notebooks, Volume 1 and Volume 2, (editors Christiaan Corlett and Mairead Weaver), An Roinn Comhshaoil agus Rialtais ítiúil/Department of the Environment and Local Government, 2002