Kilcock

A north Kildare town on the Royal Canal and the Meath border, named after St Coca, traditionally a sister of St Kevin of Glendalough and an embroiderer of vestments for St Colmcille. In the 17th century its markets were probably the largest in north Kildare, and a measure of oats was known as a 'Kilcock measure'. The poet Teresa Brayton, born at Kilbrook, wrote about the Old Bog Road just west of the town.

St Coca founded a church beside the Rye River in the 6th century; her feast on 6 June is a modern revival, since the Ordnance Survey in 1837 found no patron saint or day remembered. In the 8th century rival kings fought a battle near her church, close to the border of Leinster and Meath. By 1303 Kilcock belonged to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem at Kilmainham. In the 17th century regular markets and fairs were held, their tolls shared between the Wogans of Rathcoffey and the Eustaces of Castlemartin, and the town had 70 acres of common land. The parish church, designed by J.J. McCarthy at a cost of £10,000, was dedicated to St Coca in 1867.

Drawn from the History section of the Wikipedia article on Kilcock ↗, rewritten here and adding nothing it does not say; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Taghadoe · round tower · 6 km
• Maynooth Castle · castle · 5 km
• Rathcoffey Castle · castle · 8 km
• Reeves Castle · castle · 12 km
• Dangan Castle · castle · 13 km

Straight-line distances from the town centre, from each site's documented coordinates.

• Hill of Tara · Seat of the High Kings, with the Lia Fáil that cried out under a rightful king — and, in 1899, holes dug by British Israelites hunting the Ark of the Covenant.
• Tara — the Lia Fáil · The Stone of Destiny, one of four treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann, which roared beneath the foot of every rightful king of Ireland.
• Hill of Allen — Fionn's fort · Almu, the white fortress of Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna. A 19th-century folly now crowns the hill; the quarry has eaten half of it.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.