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Kilteel Preceptory

📍 Kildare ⛪ Knights Hospitaller 🏛️ dissolved before 1527

About This Site

supposed early monastic site Knights Hospitaller founded before 1212 by Maurice FitzGerald, confirmed by Innocent III; dissolved before 1527

supposed early monastic site Knights Hospitaller founded before 1212 by Maurice FitzGerald, confirmed by Innocent III; dissolved before 1527

Historical Information

Alternative Names:
  • Cell-cele-Croist
  • Kil-heel
  • Kil-hele
  • Kil-hill
  • Kylehale
Communities & Provenance:

supposed early monastic site Knights Hospitaller founded before 1212 by Maurice FitzGerald, confirmed by Innocent III; dissolved before 1527

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