Kill of the Grange

Kill of the Grange
Kill o' the Grange, Clonkeen
Cill na Gráinsí, Cluinchenn
Kill of the Grange is located in Dublin
Kill of the Grange
Kill of the Grange
53°16′53″N 6°09′40″W / 53.281377°N 6.160982°W / 53.281377; -6.160982
LocationKill of the Grange / Deansgrange, County Dublin
CountryIreland
DenominationPre-Reformation Catholic
History
Founded11th century
Architecture
StyleNorman
Years built11th century
Closed16th century
Specifications
Length17 m (56 ft)
Width7 m (23 ft)
MaterialsStone
Administration
DioceseDublin
Official nameKill of the Grange
Reference no.207 & 587[1]
Exterior view

Kill of the Grange (Irish: Cill na Gráinsí),[2] often Kill o' the Grange, is a suburban community and ancient parish in the half-barony of Rathdown, within the traditional County Dublin, in the jurisdiction of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. It contains an early religious site, which is a National Monument.[3] The area, sometimees described as a twin of, and sometimes as part of, Deansgrange, is 5 miles southeast of Dublin.[4]

  1. ^ "National Monuments of County Dublin in State Care" (PDF). heritageireland.ie. National Monument Service. p. 2. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Cill na Gráinsí/Kill of the Grange".
  3. ^ "megalithomania: Kill Of The Grange (Dublin) :: Church :: Visit notes".
  4. ^ Clare, Liam (2005). "The Kill and the Grange of Clonkeen: Two Early Settlements in South County Dublin". Dublin Historical Record. 58 (1): 17–30. ISSN 0012-6861. JSTOR 30101534. twin communities in South County Dublin - Dean's Grange, centred on the shops at the junction of Clonkeen Road and Kill Lane, and Kill of the Grange at Baker's Corner, both of which in the course of the century just gone out, have lost their identities as distinct villages