The winner of the Lord Walter Fitzgerald 2025 prize is Melissa Sheils for her essay “The Fair Geraldine and Tudor Court, Proximity, Persuasion and Presents.” The process was very competitive with a very high standard of entrants. The prize will be awarded later this year at a supper in Martinstown…
Copies of the Journal 2022-2023 Vol. XXIV, are available for purchase at a cost of €30 (this includes Postage) Please contact Siobhán McNulty, CKAS President on 0876879221 to order. Payment can be made directly to: Account Name : County Kildare Archaeological Society IBAN: IE10AIBK93350302324154 BIC…
Some images taken from the Society’s annual outing 2022, which was to Jerpoint Abbey in Co Kilkenny.
This journal of a middle-size tenant farmer, a rare survivor from nineteenth-century Ireland, is in the possession of the Holt family of Coolavacoose, Carbury, County Kildare. Neither a personal diary nor a full account book, it mostly records expenditure on labourers on the Holts’ farm at Coolavacoose but also features…
The Follies Trust have organised lectures on Thursday 28 October and Thursday 25 November at 7.30pm. They are being held on zoom as a webinar with a limited number of people can attend St David’s church in person. We are indebted to St David’s for hosting these events – to…
Our talk this Thursday 2nd September @ 7:30pm will be “Kildare:, Mysteries, Legend & Facts “ with AJ Mullowney. To join the Zoom Meeting on 2nd September please use the link or meeting ID provided. https://zoom.us/j/97286501359?pwd=RFUyNEpWZ3ozdGRyVlR0a3h3a0xudz09 The talk on the “History of the Royal Curragh Golf Club” with William H Gibson Colonel (retd.) will take place on Thursday 7th October…
Dear Member, I do hope that you and your families are keeping safe and well as we continue to endure the current Level 5 Covid restrictions. Normally at this time of year the Society would be circulating the programme of events for the coming year. This year things are a…
The Society is saddened to mark the passing of the Hon Desmond Guinness. He was an active member and Council member of the County Kildare Archaeological Society for many years. His contribution to heritage and conservation issues in County Kildare and beyond were significant, particularly in his role as co-founder…
