Kildare. Irish Registration Act of 1843

The Irish Registration Act of 1843

  Schedule B.,6&7 Vic.,Cap.74,Sec 3.

                                   Licence to Keep Arms.

                                        County Kildare

The following entries have been collected over a number years by myself, fellow collectors and dealers. In total over 1100 registrations from the 40 areas have been collated which is a very small sample of the 300.000 weapons the authorities had calculated were in circulation in private hands

at this time.

The list below gives all those weapons found registered in County Kildare between 1843-1846.

Listed are the county prefix, licence number, description of weapon/s and where possible the maker/retailer.

KD 257	Ind Pattern Brown Bess
KD 1001	Flk Blunderbuss. Dated 1731
KD 1009	Flk Blunderbuss	Trulock & Son
KD 1026	The Manton Suppliment p.73
KD 1151/1152	Flk Holster Pistol. Silver Mounted. C.1760.	Trulock
KD 1391	Flk Blunderbuss..	Rigby
KD 1440	Flk Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss. Folding Bayonet lacking.	Ketland
KD 1706	Flk India Pattern Brownbess.	Tower.
KD 1990/1991	Flk Pistols	Turner
KD 2039	Composite Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss	T Trulock
KD 2196/2197	Flk Silver Mounted Holster Pistols	Lewis Barbar
KD 2331	Flk Constabulary Carbine	W&J Rigby
KD 2365	Details not given.
KD 2368	Flk Blunderbuss	Ketland & Co
KD 3396	Bronze Cannon 26" Barrel
KD 3526	Flk Duelling Pistols.Cased with J.Alley Trade Label.	Gray
KD 3823	Perc' Shotgun.	Nixon
KD 4436	Flk Sporting Gun. Silver Mounts.	Stanton, Holborn

Although the above sample licence was issued in County Wexford it shows the
layout of the first page of the licence.

As can be seen there are three columns. The first being for "Guns". The second for "Pistols" and the third for, " Any Other Description of Arms, naming them".

In the above Kildare list of registrations,  KD 3396 was issued for the possession of a
26" bronze cannon which would have been entered in the third column.


Official House of Commons Returns 8th May 1846.

We are always pleased to know of other weapons registered in County Kildare.

Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk