KILDARE

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KILDARE , a market town and the county town of county Kildare, Ireland, in the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

parliamentary division, a junction on the main line of the

Great

GREAT

Southern & Western railway, 3o. m. S.W. from Dublin, the branch line to Athy, Carlow and Kilkenny diverging southward. Pop. (1901), 1576. The town is of high antiquarian

interest

INTEREST

. There is a

Protestant

PROTESTANT

cathedral church, the diocese of which was united with Dublin in 1846. St Brigit or

Bridget

founded the religious community in the 5th century, and a fire sacred to the memory of the saint is said to have been kept incessantly burning for several centuries (until the Reformation) in a small ancient chapel called the Fire

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, part of which remains. The cathedral suffered with the town from frequent burnings and destructions at thehands of the Danes and the Irish, and during the Elizabethan wars. The existing church was partially in ruins when an extensive restoration was begun in 1875 under the direction of G.E. Street; while the choir, which dated from the latter part of the 17th century, was rebuilt in 1896. Close to the church are an ancient

cross

CROSS

and a very fine round tower (its summit unhappily restored with a modern

battlement

BATTLEMENT (probably from a lost Fr. form bastillement, cf. mod. Fr. bataille, from Med. Lat. bastilia, towers, which is derived from Ital. bastire, to build, cf. Fr. bdti, ; the English word was, however, early connected with " battle ")

) 105-1 ft. high, with a doorway with unusual ornament of Romanesque character. There are remains of a castle of the 13th century, and of a Carmelite monastery. From the elevated situation of the town, a striking view of the

great

GREAT

central plain of Ireland is afforded. Kildare was incorporated by James II., and returned two members to the Irish

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

.

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