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Kilteel

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KILTEEL, a parish, in the barony of SOUTH-SALT, county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 5½ miles (E. N. E.) from Naas, on the road from Dublin to Ballymore- Eustace; containing 755 inhabitants, of which number, 253 are in the village. The village comprises 43 houses, and is a constabulary police station; fairs are held in it on May 1st, June 24th, Sept. 29th, and Nov. 2nd. The parish contains 2935 statute acres.

It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin, forming part of the union of Rathmore; the rectory is impropriate in Col. Luke Allen. The tithes amount to £98.16, 2¼., of which £65.17- 5½. is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar. In the R, C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Blessington, Here are the ruins of a castle.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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Gazetteers

The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

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Land & Property

Tithe Applotment Books for county Kildare and its  parishes are available online on the National Archives of Ireland website

The entry for Kilteel from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64

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