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| CASTLEDERMOT ABBEY, CO. KILDARE.- The ancient Gaelic name of the locality in which the noble ruins shown above ar situated was Disert Diarmada, which means, in English, the Sequestered Place of Diarmid, or Dermot. The term disert was borrowed from the Latin desertum, and means also a desert, wilderness or lonely hermitage. |
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