Coill Daingin

Kildangan, a townland in Castlejordan civil parish in County Meath's Upper Moyfenrath barony, takes its name from Cill Daingin—the church of the fortress—reflecting its Anglo-Norman origins. During the Norman conquest of Ireland in the twelfth century, Maurice Fitzgerald of Allen constructed a defensive castle at Kildangan as part of a strategic line of fortifications along the River Barrow. A ...