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Maynooth is a university town in north County Kildare, Ireland. It is home to Maynooth University and St Patrick's College, a Pontifical University and Ireland's main Roman Catholic seminary. Maynooth is also the seat of the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference and holds the headquarters of Ireland's largest development charity, Trócaire. Maynooth is located 24 kilometres west of central Dublin.
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  • 2. 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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  • 3. 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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  • 4. Maynooth Castle Maynooth
    The National University of Ireland, Maynooth , commonly known as Maynooth University , is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It is Ireland's youngest university as it was founded by the Universities Act, 1997 from the secular faculties of the now separate St Patrick's College, Maynooth, which was founded in 1795. Maynooth is also the only university town in Ireland. The university consists of two connected campuses: an older south campus with 19th-century buildings, shared with St Patrick's College, and a modern north campus, occupying circa 100 acres . With over 13,000 students enrolled in the college and over 900 staff from over 20 different countries, it is Ireland's smallest, yet fastest growing university. In 2009, Mayn...
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  • 5. The Kildare Gallery Maynooth
    Lady Elizabeth FitzGerald, Countess of Lincoln , also known as The Fair Geraldine, was an Irish noblewoman and a member of the celebrated FitzGerald dynasty. She became the second wife of Sir Anthony Browne Jr. and later the third wife of English admiral Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln. She was the inspiration for The Geraldine, a sonnet written by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Queen Elizabeth I of England, whom Lady Elizabeth served as a lady-in-waiting, was her close friend.
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  • 6. 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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  • 10. Bru na Boinne Donore
    Brú na Bóinne or Boyne valley tombs, is an area in County Meath, Ireland, located in a bend of the River Boyne. It contains one of the world's most important prehistoric landscapes dating from the Neolithic period, including the large Megalithic passage graves of Knowth, Newgrange and Dowth as well as some 90 additional monuments. The archaeological culture associated with these sites is called the Boyne culture. Since 1993 the site has been a World Heritage Site designated by UNESCO, known since 2013 as Brú na Bóinne - Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne.
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  • 11. Malahide Castle Malahide
    Malahide is a coastal settlement situated approximately 18 km north-east of Dublin city, in Fingal, Ireland. There is a village centred on a crossroads, with extensive residential areas to the south, southeast and west. Adjacent to the village is one of Fingal's largest leisure facilities, a regional park comprising Malahide Castle and its demesne, and there is also a beach, and a marina. Malahide is also a civil parish in the ancient barony of Coolock within the historic County Dublin.
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  • 12. Tayto Park Ashbourne
    Tayto Crisps is a crisps and popcorn manufacturer within the Republic of Ireland, founded by Joe Murphy in May 1954. Tayto invented the first flavoured crisp production process. The first two seasoned crisps produced were Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar. Companies worldwide sought to buy the rights to Tayto's technique. Tayto crisps are a cultural phenomenon throughout much of the Republic of Ireland, and Tayto is used by many Irish people, particularly in rural areas, as a metonym for crisps. In November 2010, Tayto opened their own theme park called Tayto Park near Ashbourne.Tayto Crisps manufactured in the Republic should not be confused with Tayto in Northern Ireland, which is a separate brand. The Northern brand of Tayto licensed the name and recipes of the Southern brand, and is wi...
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