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Inauguration site

Carrickanearla, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Inauguration site, Carrickanearla, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrickanearla
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.20179, -6.92350
SMR number
KD017-028004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A mound (KD017-028001-) and unclassified castle (KD017-028002-), where, according to Fitzgerald (1891-95, 148), 'a town of Kildare jarvey gave … a garbled story about how in former times the Earls of Kildare used to crown the Kings of Leinster on this rock …' . An editorial interjection in a later Fitzgerald article (1912-14, 424) records, ' "The Tryal and Conviction of Alexander Graydon, Esq.," a pamphlet preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, gives an account of the ceremony of electing a sovereign here in 1730'. Anglo-Norman families are not normally associated with inauguration sites and it would be unusual if the monuments here had been used in such ceremonies, however the name of the site 'Chair of Kildare' does suggest a possible ceremonial function.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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