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The Best 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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The Best Attractions In County Kildare

  • 1. Irish National Stud & Gardens Tully
    The Irish National Stud is a Thoroughbred horse breeding facility in Tully, Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland. It was formally established by incorporation on 11 April 1946 under the National Stud Act, 1945 and is owned by the Irish Government.
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  • 2. Celtic Rider Kill
    The gods and goddesses of the pre-Christian Celtic peoples are known from a variety of sources, including ancient places of worship, statues, engravings, cult objects and place or personal names. The ancient Celts appear to have had a pantheon of deities comparable to others in Indo-European religion, each linked to aspects of life and the natural world. By a process of synthesism, after the Roman conquest of Celtic areas, these became associated with their Roman equivalent, and their worship continued until Christianization. Ancient Celtic art produced few images of deities, and these are hard to identify, lacking inscriptions, but in the post-conquest period many more images were made, some with inscriptions naming the deity. Most of the specific information we have therefore comes from ...
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  • 3. Castletown House County Kildare
    Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, is a Palladian country house built in 1722 for William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. It formed the centrepiece of a 550-acre estate. Sold to developers in 1965, the estate is now divided between State and private ownership.
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  • 7. Carton House Golf Club Maynooth
    Carton House is a historic estate and great house that was the ancestral seat of the Earls of Kildare and Dukes of Leinster. Located 23 km west of Dublin, in Maynooth, County Kildare, the Carton demesne is 1,100 acres . For two hundred years Carton House estate was the finest example in Ireland of a Georgian-created parkland landscape. In the 2000s much of the estate was redeveloped into two golf courses and the house into a hotel complex.
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  • 8. The Kildare Maze Kildare
    Sport in Ireland plays an important role in Irish society. The many sports played and followed in Ireland include association football, Gaelic games , horse racing, show jumping, greyhound racing, basketball, fishing, handball, motor sport, boxing, tennis, hockey, golf, rowing, cricket, and rugby union.Football is the most popular team pursuit for males at 8.8% with gaelic football attracting 3.4%. Personal exercise 13.4% and running 8.9% are the most popular male activities. Team sports do not figure highly amongst females with dancing at 4.6% and yoga 2.4% are two of the highest shared activities. Of the €56 million allocated in the Irish government's Capital Sports Programme funding, €23.5 million went to the Gaelic Athletic Association, €7.25 million to soccer, €3.1 million to ...
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  • 11. Lullymore Heritage and Discovery Park Rathangan
    Lullymore is a village in County Kildare in Ireland. Loilgheach Mór translates as a good place for a cow to calve. It is also a civil parish in the ancient barony of Offaly East. The lowest observed 20th century air temperature in Ireland, -18.8 °C was measured at Lullymore on 2 January 1979
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  • 12. The Curragh Racecourse County Kildare
    The Curragh Racecourse, usually referred to as simply The Curragh, is Ireland's most important Thoroughbred racecourse. It is situated on the Curragh plain in County Kildare, between the towns of Newbridge and Kildare.
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  • 14. The K Club Straffan
    The Kildare Hotel and Golf Club is a golf and leisure complex in the Republic of Ireland, located at Straffan, County Kildare, west of Dublin. It is built on the old grounds of the Straffan estate, incorporating the 1830s Straffan House, and is owned by Michael Smurfit.
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  • 15. Newbridge Greyhound Stadium Newbridge
    Newbridge Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing track located northwest of Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. Racing takes place every Friday and Saturday evening and the facilities include the grandstand Masters Restaurant and Barkers Bar which offers ample seating. Race distances are 325, 525, 575 and 600 yards and the feature competition at the track is the Cox Cup.
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