Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inauguration site
Carrickanearla, County Kildare, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.