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The church at Killeshin is largely twelfth century in date, although some parts show evidence of later rebuilding, including a late Gothic east window. Probably the portal and north window belong to c.1150, and post-date Diarmait Mac Murchada's blinding and killing of 17 Leinster nobles, including three of the local Uí Barraiche dynasty, in whose locality the church stood. Scholars consider the church to be typical of the Hiberno-Romanesque style, as it combines a simple plan (nave and chancel), with a(contracted; show full) one of the few Romanesque churches in Ireland to have a remaining inscription, along with Freshford (already mentioned), Monaincha, Co. Tipperary, and a recently discovered fragment built into Temple-na-Hoe at Ardfert, Co. Kerry. The inscription at Killeshin makes clear the secular patronage of the church at this time, and thereby links it with other foundations by Diarmait Mac Murchada, including nearby Baltinglass Abbey, Co. Wicklow, and St Saviour's Priory at [[Glendalough]].

==External links==
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[[RSAI]] [http://www.rsai.ie/index.cfm?action=obj.display&obj_id=107 [[RSAI]] page on Killeshin]