County Kildare

Basic Facts about County Kildare

A list of Kildare pubs and clubs hosting regular sessions of traditional music.

A renowned manufacturer of silverware with a "Museum of Style Icons" and a very good restaurant.

If you are in Ireland and are at all interested in horses, be it breeding or racing, make a point to visit the Irish National Stud.

Images from the Japanese Gardens in the Irish National Stud, County Kildare, Ireland.

Kildare is, by and large, still an original Irish market town. Dominated by the cathedral and the round tower, defined by its central square with its market hall (now a tourist information center).

Kildare (in Irish cill dara) has been known for Saint Brigid a long time - the abbess and bishop was reputedly converted by Saint Patrick himself. Kildare today has become one of the commuting towns for Dublin, especially since the M7 was opened. Which also made getting to Kildare easy, leading to more tourism. The town is, by and large, still an original Irish market town.

This is Ireland's take on the outlet "bargain" mall - a grouping of brand-name stores designed to convey a "village setting". Not necessarily the cheapest prices in town ...

Saint Brigid's Well is one of the lesser-known attractions connected to the Irish saints. Despite the modern make-over of the site one can still sense that the area has been "special" for ages.

What once was the largest seminary in the world, churning out thousands of young priests, has dramatically changed after the Second World War - though steeped in Catholic tradition, the splendid Saint Patrick's College became part of the National University of Ireland (NUI).

Saint Patrick's College in Maynooth was built as "a place of higher education for those of the Catholic or Popish religion". Its architecture rivals that of older Trinity College, but is of a more unified look. The environs are none too bad either ...

Official tourism website for the East Coast and Midlands, the Leinster counties of Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly (North), Westmeath and Wicklow.