History of Kildare
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.
Kildare (cell dara, the church of the oak). The See of Kildare Accommodation, Kildare, Ireland) was for some time during the early period of its existence reckoned as an archbishopric. It was founded some time in the sixth century by St Brigid and originated in a. monastic institution. The early history of the See is obscure, and there is difficulty ill tracing its line of bishops. Harris, writing in the early part of the eighteenth century, described the church as being for the most part in ruins, but with the walls still standing, also the south side of the steeple and the walls 
of the nave. Service was held in the choir. He mentions the round tower and also a pedestal of rough stones formed by the base of a cross, the top of which lay in the churchyard, while the shaft was converted into a step leading to the communion table. The cathedral remained in this state until the latter portion of the last century, when it was restored under the direction of the late G. E. Street. Before the restoration Mr Street reported on the state of the fabric and stated that the ancient cathedral appeared to have been a simple cruciform church with a tower, and a chapel of some kind opening from the eastern side of the south transept : tlie building appearing to have belonged to the thirteenth century. The church as at