Kildalkey is also the name of a headland on Heard Island in the Australian Antarctic

Kildalkey or Kildalky is a village and a parish in the Barony of Lune, county and diocese of Meath

County Meath

County Meath is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Mid-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Mide . Meath County Council is the local authority for the county...

, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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.

Population

The population of the village was 137 at the time of the 1996 Census. By the 2002 Census the village had a massive 278% growth to 518.

History

The patron saint is Saint Dymphna, to whom the Catholic church is dedicated. Designed by the architect W H Byrne, it was consecrated in 1898. The Protestant church, by the architect Joseph Welland (1798-1860)

Joseph Welland (architect)

Joseph Welland was born in County Cork and became an Irish Architect for the Board of First Fruits and later the Ecclesiastical Commissioners...

, was consecrated in 1856 and was situated at Rathcormick, 2 miles west of the village. It was demolished in the 1960s. Christianity came to Kildalkey in the 5th century when St Mo-Luog founded a monastery there and the parish is mentioned in the Book of Kells

Book of Kells

The Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables. It was created by Celtic monks ca. 800 or slightly earlier...

. A section of the Pale

The Pale

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 runs through the parish.

A castle (or tower-house) dating from c.1430, which was built by the Nugent

Nugent Baronets

There have been nine Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Nugent, four in the Baronetage of Ireland and five in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Six of the creations are extinct, while three are still extant....

 family, is at Moyrath. There are seventeen townlands, all of which are listed with their residents in Griffith's Valuation

Griffith's valuation

Griffith's Valuation was a survey of Ireland completed in 1868. -Griffith's background:Richard John Griffith started to value land in Scotland, where he spent two years in 1806-1807 valuing terrain through the examination of its soils...

 of 1854. These are: Balatalion, Ballinadrimna, Baskinagh, Clonylogan, Clonmore, Clown, Corballis, Moattown, Moyrath, Neilstown, Portanob, Pubblestown, Rathcormick, Rathkeenan, Shanco, Woodtown Abbot and Woodtown West. The following families are historically associated with the parish: Barnewall

Barnewall Baronets

The Barnewall Baronetcy, of Crickstown Castle in the County of Meath, is a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 21 February 1623 for Sir Patrick Barnewall. He was the member of a family that had been settled in Ireland since 1172, when Sir Michael de Berneval landed on the coast of...

, Nangle, Nugent, and Potterton. The principal landlords in the parish were the Earls of Darnley although Speaker William Conolly and later Henry Grattan

Henry Grattan

Henry Grattan was an Irish politician and member of the Irish House of Commons and a campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century. He opposed the Act of Union 1800 that merged the Kingdoms of Ireland and Great Britain.-Early life:Grattan was born at...

held Moyrath.

External links

• Link to Griffith's Valuation for Kildalkey http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/townlands/index.cfm?fuseaction=TownlandsInCivil&civilparishid=1873&civilparish=Kildalkey&citycounty=Meath
• Link to map and pictures

http://travelingluck.com/Europe/Ireland/Meath/_2963438_Kildalkey.html