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9 unusual facts about Kildare


2010 Irish Classic

The 2010 Irish Classic (often known as the 2010 Lucan Racing Irish Classic for sponsorship and promotion purposes) professional non-ranking snooker tournament took place between 24–25 July 2010 at the Celbridge Snooker Club in Kildare, Ireland.

Henry Coddington

Henry Coddington was the son of Latham Coddington, Rector of Timolin, Kildare.

Iona Presentation College, Perth

Iona Presentation College was founded on 11 September 1907, by the Presentation Sisters who came to Australia from Kildare in Ireland.

Nelson T. Johnson

Johnson was born in the family row house located at 1st and East Capitol Street (now a part of the location of the United States Supreme Court) in Washington, D.C. He spent a part of his early life in Newkirk, Oklahoma and then Kildare, Oklahoma.

Northern Media Group

The Irish News is a successful Northern Irish daily, the Alpha Newspaper Group is the largest weekly newspaper group and River Media is one of the fastest growing media companies in the Republic of Ireland, owning thirteen newspaper titles and two radio stations: Ocean FM in Sligo Town and Kfm in Kildare.

Rossmore, New South Wales

There was a horse stud in the area called Rossmoor Stud which is believed to have been named after Rossmore Lodge a famous horse stud in Kildare, Ireland.

Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare, Quebec

In 1956, the parish municipality lost a part of its territory when the Municipality of Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare was formed.

In 1803, the geographic township of Kildare was proclaimed, named after the town in Ireland.

Water supply and sanitation in the Republic of Ireland

It is then distributed to customers in Dublin City and in the South Dublin, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal, Kildare and Wicklow County Council areas through a network of service reservoirs and 8,000 km of pipes of which 2,700 km are the responsibility of Dublin City Council.


1933 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

Kildare qualified for the semi-final for the only time in their history, but found themselves 3-0 to nil down at half time and scoring a late goal through Polly Smith of Newbridge St Theresa’s.

Adam de Hereford

After de Hereford was given large territories by Strongbow, he granted lands at what is now Castlewarden, along with Wochtred (Oughter Ard), both in County Kildare, to the Abbey of St Thomas in Dublin.

Áed Dub mac Colmáin

Colgan tells us that he resigned the throne of Leinster in 591 (really, 592), and entered the great monastery of Kildare, where he served God for forty-eight years, becoming successively abbot of Kildare and bishop of Kildare.

Áed Dub mac Colmáin or Áed(h) of Kildare is a former King of Leinster, and an Irish saint, commemorated by Colgan under date of 4 January; but much obscurity attaches to his life-work.

Alessandro Galilei

There, when William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and the richest man in Ireland was just beginning to build Castletown House, near Dublin in County Kildare, he met Galilei.

Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott

In 1827, Arbuthnott married in Kildare Catherine Maria ("Mary") Eustace (born about 1806 in Ireland; still alive in 1891 living in Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire, third daughter of Rev. Charles Eustace and descendant of the Viscounts Baltinglass.

Bertrand Vac

Bertrand Vac was the nom de plume of Quebec novelist and surgeon Aimé Pelletier (b. Aug. 20, 1914, Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare, Quebec; d. July 23, 2010, Montreal).

Calling Dr. Kildare

Calling Dr. Kildare is a 1939 film directed by Harold S. Bucquet.

Carbury

Carbury GAA is the local Gaelic football club, winner of 11 Kildare county senior football championships.

CIE 141 Class

Following crew training trials between Inchicore and Monasterevin (passenger trains), Kildare (goods trains), and Hazelhatch (light engines), the class appeared on main line trials from Amiens Street (Connolly) to Drogheda, and Westland Row (Pearse) to Arklow on 4 December 1962, entering traffic on the Dublin to Cork main line four days later.

Darren Stapleton

He moved back to Ireland to sign for Kildare County, making his League of Ireland debut in their first home game of the 2007 season at Station Road, Newbridge, on Saint Patrick's Day against Monaghan United, a match that ended in a 1-1 draw.

Diocese of Meath and Kildare

In 1976, the historic sees of Meath and Kildare were united (Kildare Diocese having for the previous century and a quarter been united with the neighbouring Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough).

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

Kildare's Strange Case is a 1940 American film directed by Harold S. Bucquet.

Dublin tramways

Dublin and Wicklow County Councils guaranteed this line, Kildare however, despite usage from the direction of Harristown (and Kilcullen and Ballymore Eustace) refused to be involved.

Dudley Loftus

He served four times as a Member of the Irish House of Commons, representing Naas between 1642 and 1648, the combined counties of Kildare and Wicklow in the Third Protectorate Parliament of 1659 at Westminster, Bannow between 1661 and 1666 and Fethard between 1692 and 1693.

Dunboyne

The Division consisted nine brigades: 1st Brigade (south Meath & north Kildare); 2nd (Navan & Trim); 3rd (Kells, Virginia & Mullagh); 4th, Delvin; 5th (Mullingar & north Westmeath); 6th, Edenderry; 7th (Naas & south Kildare); 8th Fingal; and 9th (Drogheda & south Louth).

Earl of Clonmell

Family homes included Bishopscourt (aka Bishop's Court) in County Kildare, Ireland (1838-1914) and Eathorpe Hall in Warwickshire, England (pre-1877 to post-1909).

Éire Óg

Éire Óg-Corrachoill CLG, an Irish Gaelic Athletic Association hurling club based in Country Kildare

Follow Me up to Carlow

Blood or Whiskey, an Irish punk/folk band from Leixlip, County Kildare, recorded it on their album "No Time To Explain".

Geashill

An Anglo-Norman settlement was built here between 1185 and 1204 by the first Baron of Offaly, Gerald Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, an ancestor of the Earls of Kildare.

Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Duke of Leinster

After the war the future duke tried to farm the estate at Kilkea Castle, County Kildare, Ireland, but it proved unprofitable, and in the early 1960s he moved to Oxfordshire and worked in the aviation industry.

Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare

At this period, Kildare had partially lost the use of his limbs and his speech, in consequence of a gunshot wound received in an attack upon the O'Carrolls at Birr.

Henry Joseph Monck Mason

He was born at Powerscourt, County Wicklow, the son of Lieutenant-colonel Henry Monck Mason of Kildare Street, Dublin, by his second wife, Jane, only daughter of Bartholomew Mosse, M.D. After attending schools at Portarlington and Dublin he entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1793, was elected scholar in 1796, and on graduating B.A. in 1798 was awarded the gold medal.

Joan Fitzgerald

Joan FitzGerald, Countess of Carrick (c.1286 – 1320); daughter of John FitzThomas FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Kildare

Johnstownbridge

Johnstownbridge GAA the local Gaelic Athletic Association club has won the Kildare football championship three times.

Kildare Borrowes

Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Baronet (c. 1721–1790), his grandson, Irish MP for Kildare County 1745–1776

Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet (c. 1660–1709), Irish MP for Kildare County 1703–1709

Mark Gottsche

He played for the Galway senior team in their 2008 National Football League game against Kildare.

Oughter Ard

In the film Mission: Impossible , Tom Cruise's character is told that the American President is unavailable "because he is fishing in Oughter Ard Co Kildare."

Padraig O'Neill

He plays for the Kildare senior inter-county football team and for his club St Laurence's.

Raheen

Raheens GAA, Gaelic games club in Caragh, County Kildare, Ireland

Rail Users Ireland

The tunnel as proposed by Iarnród Éireann would provide stations at Heuston (linking with the Kildare Line), High Street, St Stephens Green (linking with the Green Luas line and the Airport Metro), Pearse (linking with a DART service from Greystones to Maynooth) and Spencer Dock (continuing on to Drogheda and linking with the Red line Luas).

Refuse To Bend

He stood at Darley's Kildangan Stud, in Kildangan, County Kildare, Ireland and Whitsbury Manor Stud.

Rochfort family

The Rochfort family came to Ireland in the thirteenth century and acquired substantial lands in counties Kildare, Meath and Westmeath.

The Niall Smullen Cup

Niall later went on to play wing-forward for Kildare when they won the 1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) is seeking a permanent cure for pneumonia with a Sulfa drug, Sulfapyridine, and must ask Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) for assistance when his cancer tires him out and eventually collapses him.

William Brabazon

In the spring of 1548 he assisted the lord deputy in subduing a sedition raised in Kildare by the sons of Viscount Baltinglass.


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