CARBURY

"CARBURY, (or Castle-carbury), a parish in the barony of Carbury, in the county of Kildare, province of Leinster, 8 miles to the N.W. of Robertstown. It is situated in a fertile district near the Bog of Allen, at the source of the river Boyne, and was the site of an old castle founded by the Berminghams, and afterwards belonging to the Wellesleys. Remains of it still exist. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Dublin, Glendalagh, and Kildare, the head of a union embracing eight benefices, value £225, in the patronage of Viscount Haberton and the Hon. G. Colley. The manor of Carbury belongs to Viscount Haberton. Annual fairs are held in the village on the 26th May and the 2nd October."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868. Copyright Colin Hinson ©2018]