County Kildare Coat of Arms

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 horse's head symbolises the horse-breeding tradition of Kildare.

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