Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . Round Tower and Cross atKildare. * She was reverenced not only in Ireland, but in Scotland, and the western isles, Hy Brides, are said to have takenher name, which was invoked by the islanders to confirm their most solemn oaths. An annual festival was there held inher commemoration.—Fergusons The Irish before the Conquest, p. 165. KILDARE. The bright lamp, that shon
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . Round Tower and Cross atKildare. * She was reverenced not only in Ireland, but in Scotland, and the western isles, Hy Brides, are said to have takenher name, which was invoked by the islanders to confirm their most solemn oaths. An annual festival was there held inher commemoration.—Fergusons The Irish before the Conquest, p. 165. KILDARE. The bright lamp, that shone in Kildares holy fane,And burnd thro long ages of darkness and storm, 567 Avas kept alive with slight cessation, day and night, for nearly a thousand yearsby the nuns in a small stone structure—the Fire House—which still exists. De Vescy having fled to France to avoid a single combat with Fitzgerald,Lord of Offaly, who had accused him of treason, the possessions of the formerwere conferred on the latter, who became the first earl of Kildare of the Gerald-ine line. The Kildare branch of the Fitzgeralds very early made one of three. Cxtlit. it il f Kil iir principal seats at Maynooth, where the sixth earl erected a strong castle in the rebellion of Silken Thomas, it was taken through treachery, but inthe reign of Edward VI. it was restored to the family, in whose hands the townremains to this day, Maynooth is situated on the Rye-Water, and consists ofone principal street, at one extremity of which is Carton, the splendid seat of theDuke of Leinster, and at the other the Royal College of St. Patrick, the spacious 568 PICTURESQUE IRELAND.
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