Kilteel
Cill Chéile | |
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Village | |
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  Kilteel | |
| Coordinates: 53°14′06″N 6°31′26″W / 53.235°N 6.524°W | |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Kildare |
| Elevation | 243.8 m (799.9 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Urban | 225 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1841 | 923 | — |
| 1851 | 676 | −26.8% |
| 1871 | 477 | −29.4% |
| 1901 | 268 | −43.8% |
| 1951 | 181 | −32.5% |
| 2002 | 483 | +166.9% |
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Kilteel (Irish: Cill Chéile) is the name of a village, townland and civil parish located in the barony of South Salt, County Kildare, Ireland. The townland of Kilteel Upper contains the remains of a church with a decorated Romanesque chancel arch, the ruins of a 13th-century preceptory of the Knights Hospitaller and a well-preserved 15th-century tower house. The historic settlement is located on the southwest corner of the English Pale and served an important function as a border fortress during the medieval period.
- ^ "National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG)". Maynooth University. Retrieved 11 December 2021.