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Search our Archive. The parish extends from the peak of Cupidstown Hill adjoining Kilbride parish in County Wicklow to the southeast, east to Cromwellstownhill where it borders Dublin County. To the north, west and south it borders with the parishes of Oughterard , Kill and Rathmore. The N7 crosses the townland of Blackchurch at the northern extent of the parish.
The Record of Monuments and Places suggests that a prehistoric barrow on a hilltop within Kilteel Wood, northwest of the modern village functioned as an inauguration site. The earliest written reference to the church is a papal letter of , referring to the church of Cehcheli. The townland name originates in a grant of lands in Kildronan by Maurice FitzGerald to the Cromhale family before An early medieval D-shaped enclosure was excavated in Blackchurch townland in A ruined church southwest of the village contains the highly decorated remains of a Romanesque chancel arch or doorway.
Excavations in and suggested the first church was a single cell stone building built after AD. The carved Romanesque figures may have been taken from a separate church and incorporated into the extant building during the construction of the preceptory in the 13th century. The later church, ruined in but restored later in the 17th century, had fallen into disuse again by the early 18th century, when Protestant services may have moved to the adjacent parish of Rathmore. The church and lands of ' Kilheile' were in the possession of the Knights Hospitallers before , but it is unclear when the preceptory was built; no foundation charter or original grant of land survives.
James Ware described the preceptory as founded by Maurice FitzGerald , who died in , while Kenneth Nicholls suggested it may have been founded by his father Gerard FitzMaurice who died in In Edward III issued letters requiring those appointed for the defence of the marches to take up their duties in the wards of Kilteel, Rathmore and Ballymore, noting the 'depredations and burnings of Obryn and his accomplices'.
A substantial tower house was built to strengthen or replace the earlier defences in the 15th century. This rectangular, five-storied structure contains four floor levels above a barrel-vaulted basement with a second vault over fourth-floor level. The Alen family of Norfolk obtained a range of monastic properties in Kildare after the dissolution of the monasteries.
Wolstans and his brother Thomas, Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper , was granted the dissolved preceptory of Kilteel in ; a lease of 12 July describes Thomas Alen and his wife Mary as ' of Kilheele '. Alen's wife was the natural daughter of John Rawson, 1st Viscount Clontarf , although he must have taken a vow of celibacy when he entered the Order of St John of Jerusalem , Rawson is known to have had at least three children. Wolstans or Alenscourt and Kilteel served as a second seat in the 16th and 17th centuries.
In pardons were granted to John Alen of Alenscourte and Thomas Alen of 'Kylheale' , in Thomas Alen of Kilteel was among the 'justices, commissioners and keepers of the peace' for Kildare and in Robert Allen, heir to Alenscourt, was described as 'of Kilheale'. Kilteel was raided and burnt by Rory O'More late in and again on 3 November The Crown authorities believed that the 11th Earl of Kildare , a longstanding enemy of the Alen family, had colluded in these attacks.
The Civil Survey of —56 records only two divisions within the parish, Kilteel, plantation acres, and Kilwarning Kilwarden , plantation acres, both held by Robert Allen, an 'Irish papist '. Two Mills wch in the year were valued to be worth Thirty pounds and ten shillings There is one stump of a castle called Blackchurche upon the Aforesaid lands of Kilwarneing There is also one other ould castle upon the lands of Kilwarneing. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland notes a 16th or 17th century house in Blackchurch whose site has yet to be identified, presumably the ' stump of a castle ' noted in the Civil Survey.
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Part of the Kilteel estate had passed to the Earl of Tyrconnell before Between and Tyrconnell granted several leases of lands in Kilteel. Jonathan Hayes and James Ashton held the ' millfarm ' for 51 years from ; a year lease of ' Porters-farme ' to James Sharpe from had passed to Daniel Reading by ; George Eaton held Cromwellstown for 39 years from ; William Palmer held a portion of Kilteel for 99 years from and in Thomas Cholmondley was granted a portion including the modern townland of Cupidstown for 51 years.
After the Williamite Wars Tyrconnell was attainted and his lands confiscated. A Quaker community developed at Kilteel in the later 17th century, possibly due to Tyrconnell, who showed sympathy towards the Quakers during the brief period of Catholic political ascendancy after the ascension of James II. In 'with the assistance of a few other friends in his neighbourhood' he built a Meeting House. In the Dublin Quaker community were administering relief to the Quakers in Kilteel. Jonathan Hayes, a trustee of the will, is described as a farmer of Millfarm.
The castle and the adjacent buildings with the highest valuation in the parish were leased by John Ebbs from Kennedy. A National school, built in , recorded in the Primary Valuations and the Census and depicted on the Ordnance Survey maps, closed in ; the building, with the original datestone, survives next to the Kilteel Inn. A Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, marked in and recorded in the Census, survives as a private dwelling.
Laurence O'Toole as dating from c. The parish presumably contained an earlier Catholic chapel or mass house, though it is possible the churches at Crosschapel and Kilbride, the latter present from , served this purpose. An account of a murder trial in the Freeman's Journal refers to James Goslin's public house in Kilteel in The townland of Oldmilltown presumably contained one of the mills recorded in the Civil Survey and the 'Millfarm ' recorded in The leasehold of a dwelling house, corn mill and 16 acres in Old Mill, ' with a steady supply of water to the mill ' was advertised for sale in the Kildare Observer in Traces of the buildings and millrace depicted survive.
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Kilteel Wood, a small oak wood north of the village is depicted in its current location and extent on the Ordance Survey map and is marked as a fox covert on the Valuations maps and the 25 Inch OS map. An Ordnance Survey trigonometrical station is located at the top of Cupidstownhill. Traces of a second station are visible within the prehistoric enclosure north of the village.
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