Kilmalkedar

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Kilmalkedar
Cill Maoilchéadair [1]
Cill Mhaoilcheadair (Kilmalkedar) Church - geograph.org.uk - 275349.jpg
Church
Ireland adm location map.svg
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Location within Ireland
Monastery information
Other namesCell-maeilchetair
Establishedearly 7th century AD
Disestablished12th century
Diocese Ardfert and Aghadoe
People
Founder(s)Saint Maolcethair
Architecture
StatusInactive
Style Celtic Christianity, Romanesque
Site
LocationKilmalkedar, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry
Coordinates 52°11′05″N10°20′10″W / 52.184775°N 10.33623°W / 52.184775; -10.33623 Coordinates: 52°11′05″N10°20′10″W / 52.184775°N 10.33623°W / 52.184775; -10.33623
Visible remainsstone church, cross, oratory, holy well
Public accessyes
Official nameKilmalkedar Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Site [2]
Reference no.65

Kilmalkedar is a medieval ecclesiastical site and National Monument located in County Kerry, Ireland. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Contents

Location

Kilmalkedar is on the Dingle Peninsula, 4.8 km (3.0 mi) east of Ballyferriter and 6.7 km (4.2 mi) northwest of Dingle.

History

Kilmalkedar is traditionally associated with Saint Brendan (c. AD 484 – c. 577), but also with a local saint, Maolcethair (Maol Céadair, Maol Céaltair, Malkedar; [7] died 636). [8]

The surviving church dates to the mid-12th century, with the chancel extended c. 1200. [9]

It was a traditional assembly site for pilgrims, who followed the Saint's Road (Casán na Naomh) [10] northeast to Mount Brandon. [11]

Some of the rituals carried out by locals, like performing nine clockwise circuits of the site on Easter Sunday, or the boring of holes in standing stones, suggest remnants of Celtic religion; Kilmalkedar may well have been a religious site long before Christianity arrived. [12]

Buildings

NW view Kilmalkeader Church north west view.JPG
NW view

The church resembles Cormac's Chapel on the Rock of Cashel (built 1127–1134). Its nave is 8.28 m × 9.4 m (27.2 ft × 30.8 ft) with antae and steep gables. The chancel is 5.72 m × 5.1 m (18.8 ft × 16.7 ft) externally. The doorway is a notable Hiberno-Romanesque piece. [13] A hole in the east wall of the chancel is called "the eye of the needle"; if one can fit through it, one is certain to go to heaven. [12]

Pre-Romanesque remains include a corbelled building, perhaps a monastic cell; an alphabet stone; an Ogham stone; a sundial; a stone cross; and some bullauns. [8] [14] One of the bullauns is associated with the mythical cow Glas Gaibhnenn. [15]

The alphabet stone is carved with "DNI" (domini) and the Latin alphabet in uncial script, carved c. AD 550–600. [16]

Ogham stone. The hole bored in the top is unique. Ogham stone, Kilmalkedar Church (geograph 4663698).jpg
Ogham stone. The hole bored in the top is unique.

The Ogham stone (CIIC 187) reads ẠṆM MẠỊLE-INBIR/ MACI BROCANN ("Name of Máel-Inbher son of Broccán") and dates to c. AD 600. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cill Maoilchéadair/Kilmalkedar". Logainm.ie.
  2. ↑ National Monuments Service (4 March 2009). "National Monuments in State Care: Ownership & Guardianship" (PDF). Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Kilmalkedar Church, Dingle". TripAdvisor. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "Saints and Stones: Kilmalkedar Church (Cill Maolcheadair)". www.saintsandstones.net.
  5. ↑ "Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy". Royal Irish Academy. 27 May 1864 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archoeological Association". Association. 27 May 1892 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Cormack, Margaret Jean (27 May 2018). Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN   9781570036309 – via Google Books.
  8. 1 2 "St Maolcethair/St Malkedar, Kilmalkedar · The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland". www.crsbi.ac.uk.
  9. ↑ Jackman, Neil (11 May 2018). Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way: A Guide to its Historic Treasures. The Collins Press. ISBN   9781788410434 – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ Carver, Martin (27 May 2018). The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300. Boydell Press. ISBN   9781843831259 – via Google Books.
  11. ↑ "Voices from the Dawn – The Gate of the Cow; Kilmalkedar Keelers Stone". voicesfromthedawn.com. 14 October 2010.
  12. 1 2 Pemberton, Cintra (1 October 1999). Soulfaring: Celtic Pilgrimage Then and Now. Church Publishing, Inc. ISBN   9780819217806 – via Google Books.
  13. ↑ "The Antiquities of Kilmalkedar: Dingle Peninsula, Co Kerry – Ireland Travel Kit". www.irelandtravelkit.com.
  14. ↑ "Kilmalkedar Christian Site, Kerry". www.megalithicireland.com.
  15. ↑ "Kilmalkedar Bullauns, Kerry".
  16. ↑ "Kilmalkedar Alphabet Stone". www.corcadhuibhne3d.ie.
  17. ↑ "Kilmalkedar". www.corcadhuibhne3d.ie.
  18. ↑ Master, Web. "Kilmalkedar Church ~ Cill Mhaoilcéadair". www.dingle-peninsula.ie.
  19. ↑ "Ogham in 3D – Kilmalkedar / 187. Kilmalkedar". ogham.celt.dias.ie.
  20. ↑ "The Gate of the Cow; Kilmalkedar Keelers Stone". 14 October 2010.
  21. ↑ "Holy Cows. The Miraculous Animals of the Irish Saints: Part 6, The Magical Cows of Kilmalkedar". Pilgrimage in Medieval Ireland. 12 March 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
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