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Killashee

Cill Uasaille

Excavation in 2020 revealed practical changes to agricultural drainage in the northern part of the townland.

Recorded locationKillashee53.18895° N · 6.67158° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

cillchurch

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

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Recorded forms

  • Cill Uasaille · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Killashee · English · main form

Place & story

Small drains feeding larger ditches

Donald Murphy’s archaeological monitoring between July and October 2020 exposed field ditches and drains at northern Killashee. Large ditches ran roughly northwest to southeast, with smaller channels feeding into them. One channel was stone-lined; another appears to have been added later to connect it with a main ditch. The arrangement suggests efforts to improve drainage towards existing wet ditches along the field edges. [2]

Evidence for the main period of use

Finds ranged from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries, with most dating to the seventeenth and eighteenth. Murphy placed the principal use of the drainage system in the early eighteenth to nineteenth centuries and considered it probably agricultural. The oldest finds therefore do not establish the construction date of every ditch. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Kildare
Civil parish
Killashee
Within
Killashee
Coordinates
53.18895, -6.67158
Mapped area
1.65 km²
Logainm ID
25905 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1926 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Killashee. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Killashee, Naas:2020:425, licence19E0478 · Donald Murphy; Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-29. How this page was prepared.