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Tourist Spot Attractions In County Kildare

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County Kildare is a county in Ireland. It is located in the province of Leinster and is part of the Mid-East Region. It is named after the town of Kildare. Kildare County Council is the local authority for the county which has a population of 222,130.
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  • 2. St. Patrick's College Maynooth
    St Patrick's College, Maynooth , is the National Seminary for Ireland , and a Pontifical University, located in the village of Maynooth, 24 km from Dublin, Ireland. The college and seminary are often referred to as Maynooth College. The college was officially established as the Royal College of St Patrick by Maynooth College Act 1795. Thomas Pelham, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, introduced his Bill for the foundation of a Catholic college, and this was enacted by Parliament. It was opened to train 500 Catholic priests every year, and was once the largest seminary in the world. In the past decades intakes has been decreasing in line with the wider fall in vocations across the Western developed world, with a record low in 2017 of six first year seminarians. This fall was due, in part, to ...
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  • 5. St Mary's Church Maynooth
    St Patrick's College, Maynooth , is the National Seminary for Ireland , and a Pontifical University, located in the village of Maynooth, 24 km from Dublin, Ireland. The college and seminary are often referred to as Maynooth College. The college was officially established as the Royal College of St Patrick by Maynooth College Act 1795. Thomas Pelham, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, introduced his Bill for the foundation of a Catholic college, and this was enacted by Parliament. It was opened to train 500 Catholic priests every year, and was once the largest seminary in the world. In the past decades intakes has been decreasing in line with the wider fall in vocations across the Western developed world, with a record low in 2017 of six first year seminarians. This fall was due, in part, to ...
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  • 6. Grey Abbey Kildare
    Grey Abbey is a ruined abbey in County Kildare, Ireland. It was run by Franciscan friars.
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  • 7. Moone High Cross County Kildare
    Moone is a small village in the south of County Kildare, Ireland. It is on the former N9 road about 80 km south of Dublin. It has only a few hundred inhabitants, a church, a National School, one shop and a small community centre. There is also pub called the Moone High Cross Inn.
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  • 8. Castledermot Friary Castledermot
    Castledermot is an inland village in the south-east of Ireland in County Kildare, about 75 km from Dublin, and 10 km from the town of Carlow. The N9 road from Dublin to Waterford previously passed through the village but upon completion of a motorway bypass in 2010, it was redesignated the R448.
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  • 9. St Conleth's Park Stadium Newbridge
    St Conleth's Park is a GAA stadium in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. It is the county ground of Kildare's gaelic football and hurling teams. It also served as the town's greyhound racing track from 1948 until 1968.
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  • 11. Leixlip Castle Leixlip
    Leixlip is a town in north-east County Kildare, Ireland. Its location on the confluence of the River Liffey and the Rye Water has marked it as a frontier town historically: on the border between the ancient kingdoms of Leinster and Brega, as an outpost of The Pale, and today on Kildare's border with Dublin. As of 2016, the population of the town was 15,504. It is the fourth largest town in Kildare, and the 29th largest in Ireland.
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  • 12. Wonderful Barn Leixlip
    The Wonderful Barn is a corkscrew-shaped building on the edge of Castletown House Estate, formerly of the Conolly family, in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. The barn itself is formally in neighbouring Leixlip.
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  • 13. Liffey Walk Clane
    The River Liffey is a river in Ireland, which flows through the centre of Dublin. Its major tributaries include the River Dodder, the River Poddle and the River Camac. The river supplies much of Dublin's water and a range of recreational activities.
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  • 15. Old Kilcullen Round Tower and High Cross Kilcullen
    Old Kilcullen, formerly Kilcullen , is a townland in County Kildare, Ireland, which includes a noted religious archaeological site within its boundary. As a townland it is relatively large but lightly populated . The location of the townland is roughly contained within the R418 and R448 routes starting at its most northerly point, a crossroads known locally as Thompson's Cross. The townland continues south from this point as far as Harklow and is intersected in its north east corner by the M9 motorway at Abbeyaun. Old Kilcullen was formerly the site of a walled town, and before that of an ecclesiastical settlement dating from the 5th century. The original settlement gave its name to the substantial surrounding civil parish and barony. The urban centre of the area moved 2 km north-east to K...
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