County Kildare is one of the richest counties in Ireland for antiquities. Indeed, the earliest written records of pre-Christian Ireland from the Greek historian Ptolemy, in his map of Ireland of c.100 A.D., shows an inland town that maybe Rheban on the River Barrow, near Athy. From the stone circles & standing stones of the Bronze Age; the Iron Age Royal site of Dun Ailinne & the elaborate Celtic High Crosses & Round Towers of Christendom, to the great Anglo-Norman castles of the FitzGeralds & the architectural wonderments of the religious abbeys, County Kildare was bestowed with a rich...
County Kildare is one of the richest counties in Ireland for antiquities. Indeed, the earliest written records of pre-Christian Ireland from the Greek...
