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Maynooth

Maynooth , town (1991 pop. 6,027), Co. Kildare, E Republic of Ireland. It is the seat of St. Patrick's College (1795), the principal institution in Ireland for training Roman Catholic clergy, now a constituent college of the National Univ. of Ireland. Some of the buildings were designed by A. W. Pugin . Near the college are the ruins of Maynooth Castle, also called Geraldine Castle, founded c.1176. It was besieged in the reign of Henry VIII and dismantled in the 17th cent.

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Maynooth a village in County Kildare in the Republic of Ireland, which is the site of St Patrick's College, a Roman Catholic seminary founded in 1795.

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Maynooth, pardon of. During the Kildare rebellion, the constable of the besieged castle of Maynooth, Christopher Paris, agreed to its betrayal for money. When the castle was overrun on 23 March 1535, the lord deputy, Sir William Skeffington, executed Paris and 25 other prisoners, as an example to other rebels. By reneging on the deal with Paris, Skeffington made ‘the pardon of Maynooth’ an ironic term for every subsequent breach of trust.

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