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'''COUNTY KILDARE '''
'''COUNTY KILDARE '''


[[File:kildare.county.gif|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]
[[File:kildare.county.jpg|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]


====Official blazon====
====Official blazon====

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COUNTY KILDARE

Arms (crest) of Kildare (county)

Official blazon

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on July 19, 1991.

The red diagonal cross symbolises the ancient aristocratic family of the Kildare area, the Fitzgeralds, who used a red diagonal cross on a white background as their coat-of-arms.

The harp is the symbol for the fianna, a legendary group of warriors from Celtic mythology who supposedly had their headquarters in Kildare.The cross is the saint Bridget's cross; saint Brigid lived in a monastery in county Kildare.

The horse's head symbolises the horse-breeding tradition of Kildare.
The acorns are taken from the Irish for Kildare (cill dara) which means the church of the oak tree.


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