WHITECHURCH, a parish, in the barony of NORTH-NAAS,
county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER,
3 miles (N.) from Naas, on the road to Celbridge; containing
279 inhabitants, and comprising 1875 statute
acres. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kildare, forming
part of the union of Kill; the rectory is entirely
impropriate in the Earl of Mayo. The tithes amount to
£105, of which £45 is payable to the impropriator and
£60 to the vicar. A priory of Carmelites is said to
have stood here.