Kildare Ireland

Posted on April 16th, 2008 under Holiday Homes & Self Catering. Tags: 3 star, Ballyteague, Coarse Fishing, cottage, Curragh, Game Angling, Grand Canal, Greyhound Racing, horse racing, Ireland, Kildare, Lowtown Road, motor racing, Naas, rivers, Robertstown, Robertstown Holiday Village, Straffan. Comments: 5

The origin of the name Kildare (Holiday Apartments, Kildare, Ireland) is from the Gaelic, Cill Dara, meaning Church of the Oak Tree, referring to St. Brigids church beneath an oak tree. St. Brigid was one of the three patron saints of Ireland. St. Brigids church was built on the same location as a shrine to the Celtic goddess Brigda, with which the legend of St. Brigid is suspected to be tied.

Kildare was an important military strategic area in the time of the Anglo-Norman occupation. British military outposts came into being in Kildare in the 1700s. The Curragh, in Kildare, has been the training base for the national army since Ireland became an independant country in the early 20th century.

Posted on April 16th, 2008 under History. Tags: Barrow, Boyne, Co. Dublin, Co. Kildary, Curragh, Ireland, Kildare, Maynooth, Monasterevan, Naas, Oak Tree, St Brigid. Comments: 1

There are eight remarkable monolithic pillar stones of granite, in Co. Kildare. One of these is situated close to Punchestown Racecourse, and measures 19 ft. in height, another is placed in the centre of a ring fort known as the Longstone Rath, at Furness, near Naas. This ring fort was excavated in 1911 ; close to the standing stone, which reaches a height of 17 ft. above the ground, a stone cist was discovered containing a Bronze-Age burial. There can be little doubt that in this case the pillar stone marked the grave of some person of importance. The fort was probably used as a kind of temple, where ceremonial games were celebrated round the burial place, rather than as a defensive structure.

Posted on April 16th, 2008 under Antique. Tags: Adamnans Cross, Castledermot, County Kildary, cross, Curragh, Longstone Rath, Moone Abbey, Naas, pillar stone, Punchestown Racecourse, Richard earl of Pembroke. Comments: None

Kildare (Bed and Breakfasts, Kildare, Ireland), a county of Ireland, province of Leinster, 37 m. long and 20 broad; bounded E by Dublin and Wicklow, W by King’s county and Queen’s county, N be E. Meath, and S by Catherlough, and containing 593 English acres, divided into 100 parishes. It sends 2 members to parliament. Its principal rivers are the Liffey, Barrow, and Boyne. A unique plain called the Curragh stretches across County Kildare (Self Catering, Kildare, Ireland), which is famous for horseracing, breeding and it has been the main training base for the Irish Army. Naas which comes from the Irish N� na Riogh, the assembly of Kings was the seat of the Kings of Leinster. There is a butterfly farm in Straffan, County Kildare (Holiday Homes, Kildare, Ireland). Before the arrival of the Normans, the region was part of the territories of the O’Byrnes and O’Tooles. Following the granting of the county to the Norman Fitzgeralds, these were forced to migrate east, into the barren and impregnable Wicklow Mountains. The Fitzgeralds became earls of Kildare and, later, Dukes of Leinster, and were virtual rulers of Ireland up to the sixteenth century. The seat of the Irish Oireachtais (parliament), Leinster House in Kildare Street, Dublin is named for these Fitzgeralds. In recent years, the county has seen a large growth in its population, due almost entirely to the expansion of the suburbs of Dublin.

Posted on April 16th, 2008 under Genealogy. Tags: , Barrow, Boyne, Census, church, Curragh, directories, Dublin, England, Family Research Centre, Heritage & Genealogy Company, History, Ireland, Irish, Kildare, Leinster, Leinster House, Liffey, Norman Fitzgeralds, Normans, O'Byrnes, O'Tooles, Straffan, USA, Wicklow, Wicklow Mountains. Comments: None