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Air

Weston Aerodrome ((IATA: WST, ICAO: EIWT)) was founded in 1931 (licensed circa 1937) by Darby Kennedy - who from the early 1950s operated a number of DeHavilland Dragons and Dragon Rapides aircraft commercially from the Weston flying field. Weston is owned since 2001 by Jim Mansfield and is primarily used for flight training, executive flights and private general aviation. The main terminal was completed in 2007,along with the control tower, hangar, customs and emigration offices, classrooms for ground-schools and simulator training. Weston is Class C airspace.

Amenities

The Setanta House Hotel is the only hotel in Celbridge town, and was originally an 18th century school with historic ties to the Conolly family who built Castletown House. Located on the Clane road, the hotel is host to the only after-hours club in Celbridge. The Abbey Lodge pub occasionally runs a late bar and has a restaurant. Other pubs in the town include: O'Connors Bar and The Kildrought Lounge, Castletown Inn (also with restaurant), The Mucky Duck, The Village Inn and Celbridge House. Restaurants include Michaelangelos, Delhi Darbar and Da Mario's and Cafe La Serre at Lyons Estate outside the village.

Athletics

George Magan was Irish cross country champion in 1920 and 1922, Irish Mile champion in 1919, 1921 and 1922, Irish 880 yards champion in 1918, 1919 and 1921, and Irish four mile champion in 1921. Jack Guiney was Irish champion in the triple jump and shot in 1937.

Bibliography

* A History of Celbridge by Tony Doohan (Celbridge Community Council 1984). * A Short Description and List, with the Prices of the Instruments of Husbandry, made in the Factory at Laughlinstown near Celbridge, in the County of Kildare. Established and conducted by Mr. J. W. Baker, under the patronage of the Dublin Society by John Wynn Baker (1767) * Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832 (Paperback) by Stella Tillyard (Vintage 1995) ISBN 978-0099477112 * Castletown and its owners by Lena Boylan (1978) * Castletown, Celbridge, Co. Kildare: Formerly the home of the Conolly family now the headquarters of the Irish Georgian Society by Desmond Guinness (Unknown Binding 1971) ASIN: B0007B4WUQ * Celbridge Abbey: Its history and its traditions (Cahill 1913) by John R O'Connell * Celbridge Collegiate School by Michael Quane (Kildare Archaeological Society 1969) * Celbridge Development Plan 1982 by Patrick Shaffrey (Celbridge Community Council 1982) * Celbridge Development Plan 2002 (Kildare County Council 2002) ASIN: B001A9YAYC * Celbridge GAA by Darragh MacIntyre (Celbridge GAA 1984) * Celbridge GAA Yearbook, by Niall 'The Goalie' McGee 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 * Changing Times: the Story of Religion in 19th Century Celbridge (Maynooth Studies in Local History) by Desmond O'Dowd (Irish Academic Press 1997) ISBN 978-0716526353 * Journals of the Kildare Archaeological Society: Volume I: 256, 301. Volume II: 140, 183, 198, 200-3, 214, 272, 277-283, 285, 288, 312, 324, 361-378. Volume III: 114-115, 117, 428. Volume IV: 68, 70, 89, 91, 98, 99-100, 129, 165, 366. Volume V: 4, 72. Volume V: 465. Volume VI: 175, 209, 303-4, 415. Volume XII: 53, 255-257, 263-264, 268, 452. * Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000 * Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, ISBN 978-0950937007 hb ISBN 978-0950937014 pb * Lady Louisa Conolly, 1743-1821: An Anglo-Irish Biography (Staples P 1950) ASIN: B0019WXZWI * Langrishe Go Down by Aidan Higgins (original 1966, new edition New Island Books 2007) ISBN 978-1905494460 * Rebellion in Kildare, 1790-1803 (A 1798 Bicentenary Book) by Liam Chambers (Four Courts Press 1998) ISBN 978-1851823635 * Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board. * St Wolstans Priory Celbridge (Royal Society Of Antiquaries Of Ireland 1919) by R Cane Claude ASIN: B0018Z2YG4

Born or Resident

* John Alen Archbishop of Dublin, and Chancellor of Ireland, (1476–1534), casualty of the "Silken Thomas" Fitzgerald rebellion in 1534. * Simon Bradstreet (1792-1853) of Stacumney, founder member of the Catholic Association and associate of Daniel O’Connell. * Ben Briscoe (1934-) former Fianna Fáil politician who was a Teachta Dála (TD) for 37 years, representing a series of constituencies in Dublin[33] and Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1989, the city;s millennium year. * William "Speaker" Conolly (1662–1729) the most powerful and wealthiest politician in Ireland in the first decades of the 18th century. * Lady Louisa Conolly (1743–1821), wife of Tom Conolly and her sister Sarah Napier (1745–1826), wife of George Napier, both daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond. Their lives were celebrated in Stella Tillyard's book Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox and a six part BBC Television series based on the book. * Tom Conolly (1738–1803) radical Irish politician of the 1780s and Grand Nephew of William "Speaker" Conolly. * Seven Celbridge-born sisters of Tom Conolly, Catherine, wife of Ralph Gore, earl of Rosse, Annie, who married George Byng, Harriet, who married John Staples, Frances, who married William Howe, a British general during the American Revolutionary War, Caroline, who married John Hobart, second earl of Buckinghamshire, Lucy, and Jane who had an ill-fated marriage to duelist and adventurer George Robert Fitzgerald, famous for having survived twelve duels, more than any other known Irish duelist. * Gerald R Dease (1831-1903) chamberlain to successive Lord Lieutenants [34] * Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick (1634-1715), a member of Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War, and governor of the Province of New York. * Arthur Guinness (1725–1803) founder of the famous brewery is buried in Oughterard cemetery, near the plot of his uncle William Read. He was the son of Richard Guinness and Elizabeth Read (1698–1742) from Bishopscourt, who was agent and receiver of Dr Arthur Price and lived in Celbridge at the time of Arthur's birth. * Aidan Higgins (b1927), writer whose 1972 novel, 'Balcony of Europe' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Celbridge provided material for his 1966 experimental novel, 'Langrishe, Go Down which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and was later adapted as a BBC television film by British playwright Harold Pinter, in association with Radio Telefis Eireann. * Joshua Jacob (c.1802–1877), founder of the White Quakers, lived in Celbridge in the 1840s. * Ivone Kirkpatrick (1897–1964), diplomatist, British Chancellor in Berlin before the second world war, Under-Secretary of the British Foreign Office 1953-57, chairman of the British Independent Television Authority 1957-62 and diehard supporter of old-empire British aggression, lived at Donaghcomper. * James Lambert (1802-1877). Merchant and politician. Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1856. [35] * Donal MacIntyre (b1966). Campaigning television journalist. * Vincent McKenna (b1955) soccer player for Shelbourne (1971-8) and Dundalk (1978-80) who played five times for Ireland youths, including the 1972 European finals, and won an inter-league cap. * Col George Napier (1751–1804) and his sons George (1784–1855), Charles (1782–1853), William (1785–1860), and Henry (1789–1853), later to be collectively known as “Wellington’s Colonels.” * Art O'Connor (1888-1950), Minister for Agriculture in the second Dáil cabinet (1921) and briefly leader of Sinn Fein after the foundation of Fianna Fáil by Eamon De Valera (1927). * Anthony O'Reilly (1900-1923) volunteer during the War of Independence and on the anti-treaty side during the Civil War, born in Celbridge workhouse and fostered by the Julia and Mary Cummins in Simmonstown Castle. He joined the Free State Army, then defected to the anti-treaty side after a raid on Baldonnel. He was captured after the battle of Pike's Bridge and executed by firing squad in Portobello Barracks on January 8 1923, the 44th of the 77 Republicans executed by Free State forces during the Civil War. His remains were reinterred in Donacomper cemetery in 1924. The older of two cumanns of the Fianna Fáil party in Celbridge is named in his honour. * Arthur Price (1678/9–1752) serial bishop of four different Church of Ireland dioceses, culminating in the Archbishopric of Archbishop of Cashel, and beneafactor to Brewer Arthur Guinness. * Damien Rice (b1973) noted indie musician * John Sheehan (1809–1882), a radical journalist who wrote under the pseudonym of “the Irish Whisky-Drinker’ grew up in Celbridge, the son of Thomas Sheehan, a grazier, and Alicia Dunn. A notorious incident in which Sheehan’s colleague satiric poet and journalist Francis Sylvester Mahony, [pseud. Father Prout] (1804–1866) fell out with Celbridge parish priest Daniel Callinan took place at Sheehan’s home in Celbridge in 1830. Sheehan served a prison sentence in 1833 as a result of his attacks on Dublin Castle in the satirical weekly paper “The Comet”. Sheehan was a contemporary of the English author William Makepeace Thackeray as a young man in Paris, and he is believed to be the original of “Captain Shandon” in “Pendennis.” * Kathleen Walsh (1947-2007), politician. Winner of the Lady Mayoress of Celbridge charity competition 1985, elected as an independent to Kildare County Council at the 1999 local elections with the highest personal vote in the county. Joined the Progressive Democrats (PDs), stood unsuccessfully for Dáil Éireann in 2002 and 2005. Member of the Seanad 2002-7.[36]

Brewery

After Celbridge rector Arthur Price married Richard Guinness and Elizabeth Read (1698-1742), of a brewing family from Bishopscourt and an aunt of Arthur Guinness, he took over the town brewery in 1722 and moved it from the site of the Village Inn to where the entrance forecourt of the Holy Faith convent is today. There he placed his land steward and brother-in-law Richard Guinness in charge of production of "a brew of a very palatable nature". In 1752, Dr Price's estate bequeathed £100 to Richard's son, the 27-year-old Arthur Guinness to help him expand the brewery, first in 1755 on a new site in Leixlip and from 1759 in St James’s Gate in Dublin. Some of the blocked up doors from the original Price-Guinness brewery can still be seen on the perimeter walls of the Catholic church forecourt.

Bus

The town is served by Dublin Bus along the 67, 67A and 67X routes. These routes link the town to the city centre as well as the nearby towns of Lucan and Maynooth. Some other bus operators also serve Celbridge, notably Circle Line (previously Mortons), linking Celbridge to the city and the southside of Dublin, including Ballsbridge, Dundrum and Nutgrove, The service was suspended in June 2008 amid allegations of uncompetitive practices by Dublin Bus[citation needed].

Castles in the area

Castles in the Celbridge area were at Castletown, Posseckstown, Simmonstown, Templemill, Reeves, Lyons, Barberstown and St. Wolstans.

Castletown House

Castletown House is situated at the end of an avenue extending from the main street, and is one of Ireland's finest Palladian country houses. and is Ireland's original and largest Palladian country houses. It was begun in 1722 by William "Speaker" Conolly (1662-1729), Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, who came under the influence of the New Junta for Architecture, whose adherents included Alessandro Galilei believed to have designed the main house and Edward Lovett Pearce believed to have designed the entrance-hall and the long gallery in its original form, as well as the colonnades and wings. Pearce did commissions for William Conolly before his speculated involvement with Castletown. The house was inherited by Tom Conolly (1738–1803) in 1758 and the interior decoration was finished by his wife Lady Louisa (great-granddaughter of Charles II of England and Louise de Keroualle) during the 1760s and 1770s. Two of the best-known features of Castletown are the "Long Gallery" (an 80-foot (24 m) long room decorated in the Pompeian manner in blue and gold), and the main staircase (which is cantilevered and made of white Portland stone). Conolly's Folly (also known as "The Obelisk") is an obelisk structure. It is built to the rear of Castletown House which contains two follies, both commissioned by the widow of Speaker William Conolly to provide employment for the poor of Celbridge at a time when famine was rife. As such these monuments serve no real purpose, instead they were dedicated to battles in the 1500s. The Obelisk was built in 1739 after a particularly severe winter. Designed by Richard Castle, it is 42 metres high and is composed of several arches, adorned by stone pineapples and eagles. The main avenue from the town is no longer accessible by vehicular traffic which must enter the house from the roundabout off the M4.

Celbridge Abbey

Celbridge Abbey was the childhood (1688-1707) and later adult (1714-23) home of Bartholomew Van Homrigh’s daughter Esther (1688–1723), the ill-starred lover of Dean Swift. The poem in which Swift fictionalised her as "Vanessa" "Cadenus and Vanessa" (1713) was written seven years before he visited her in Celbridge in 1720. A rock bower associated with the lovers is a 19th century recreation. The current Celbridge Abbey was constructed by Thomas Marley, grandfather of the Irish parliamentarian Henry Grattan. His daughter Mary was married to James Grattan, Henry Grattan’s father and a member of the Irish House of Commons. A later occupant was Gerald Dease, a Catholic nobleman who entertained the Empress of Austria during her visit to Ireland. He is buried in a prominent position on front of the local Catholic church, the construction of which he helped to fund. The rock bridge in Celbridge Abbey grounds is now the oldest stone bridge across the Liffey since the removal of John Le Decer’s 1308 bridge three miles downriver at Salmon Leap.

Celbridge Amenity Group

The Celbridge Amenity Group is currently working in conjunction with the Kildare County Council to plan new improvements around the town such as the new playground built for local children.

Celbridge Christian Church

Formed in 2005 this is a small independent church. Services are each Sunday at 11 at unit 4 , Celbridge Industrial Estate. The church is lead by Pastor Paul Carley. Formerly known as Celbridge Pentecostal Church. Other weekday services available on request

Celbridge Main Street

The development of the Main Street commenced with the building of Kildrought House by Joseph Rotheny in 1720 for Robert Baillie, a Dublin upholsterer who was William Conolly's greatest prospect as an improving tenant. A large extension, which included a malt house, was added after Baillie sold in 1749. Kildrought house became home to John Begnall’s Academy after 1782. Among the attendees were the sons of Col George Napier, George, Charles, William and Henry, later to be collectively known as “Wellington’s Colonels, ” and their younger brother Richard Napier, and John Jebb (1775–1833), later Church of Ireland bishop of Limerick, Ardfert, and Aghadoe. Jeremiah Haughton, owner of the Mill lived there after 1818. For a time in the early 1800s Kildrought House had a cholera hospital attached to it and served as the local police barracks from 1831 to 1841 when the barrack moved to the site of the current Michaelangelo’s restaurant. After 1861 it was leased by Richard Maunsell of Oakley Park. Next door is the courthouse where the local petty sessions took place every fourth week. [7] No 22 Main Street, the original home of Conolly’s second agent George Finey was occupied by Richard Guinness for a time and his sons Arthur, founder of the Guinness brewery, and Samuel. Richard married Elizabeth Clere, proprietor of the White Hart Inn, a public house at the site of the current Londis supermarket. Finey’s successor as Conolly’s agent, Dublin cabinetmaker Charles Davis, built Jasmine Lodge, an impressive five-bay house with a weather vane on the junction of Main Street and the Maynooth Road (1750). It was home to seven generations of Mulligans until 1992. One of the Mulligans had the decorative iron arch to the entrance gate constructed from material salvaged from the GPO Dublin after the 1916 Rebellion The Castletown Inn stands where Isaac Annesley, the early 18th century master stonemason lived. One of the oldest houses in the town. No 59 next door, was renovated in the latter half of the 18th century for Thomas Conolly's huntsman. Christopher Barry’s Auctioneers was built in 1840 by Richard Nelson and let to Chief Constable Marley, it replaced an old dwellinghouse with stables and offices where William Wadsworth, the original Irish Straw Manufacturer and exporter lived and operated at the end of the 19th century. On the corner of the Main Street and Liffey Bridge, Broe’s house and shop (1773) is now the Bank of Ireland. Mattew Gogarty came from Clondalkin in 1818 and established his shop on the other side of the street. James Carberry's Brewery (1709) later became Coyles and eventually Norris’s and the Village Inn. Roseville was built in 1796. Other notable buildings on Main Street include the Catholic Church (1857 JJ McCarthy Architect), the Holy Faith convent (1877) and Christ Church (Church of Ireland, 1884) which retains the tower of an earlier church (1813). Castletown gates at the end of the street were built in 1783 after a design inspired by Batty Langley. According to research by local historian Lena Boylan, the work was by a stone mason named Coates and a blacksmith named Behan.

Celbridge Mill

The Manor Mills (built by Laurence Atkinson 1805, restored 1985) incorporate parts of the old Celbridge Market House. It was purchased by Jeremiah Houghton after Atkinson's bankruptcy in 1815 [13]. Houghton told a parliamentary committee that this mill was the biggest wool manufactory in Ireland [14]. Although Houghton too was bankrupt in 1818[15], the mill was described as employing several hundred people when King Wiliam IV of England visited Celbridge in September 1821[16] and the description "biggest wool manufactory in Ireland" was repeated in the 1845 Parliamentary Gazeteer. It employed 600 people at full capacity, some of them children who were eight and nine years of age. Workers from Yorkshire who came to work in the mill lived in Tea Lane (so called because of the amount of discarded tea leaves on the street) and English Row. The closure of the mills in 1879 caused the population of Celbridge to plunge from a nineteenth century peak of 1,674 in 1861 (1,391 in 1871) to 988 in 1881 and a low of 811 in 1891[17][18]. Under the Irish Government regeneration scheme of the 1930s, the Leinster Hand Weaving Company acquired the premises for conversion in to a weaving mill [19]. Celbridge woollen mill was operated by Youghal carpets (acquired 1966[20], workforce extended from 120 jobs in October 1969[21]). It was a major employer until its closure in May 1982 with the loss of 220 jobs. This ended two centuries of intermittent wool production in the village. The mill now serves as a community centre. Its warehouses which bear a wall-mount dating the Mill to 1785, and a stone commemorating the site of St Mochua’s well. Mills at Coneyburrow (Newbridge, near St. Wolstan's) were granted to Robert Randall, Dublin paper maker, in 1729, and were later converted for use as a flour-mill[22][23].

Celbridge Paddlers

Celbridge Paddlers canoe-club is a multi-discipline kayaking club and evolved out of Vanessa Canoe Club. Formed in 1984 it has over 150 members and has been recently represented at world level in sprint, marathon, slalom, wildwater, surf and freestyle. It is affiliated to the national governing body of canoe-sport in Ireland, the Irish Canoe Union where it has representation up to the role of ICU President. Neil Fleming was a contender for a place on the Irish team at the Beijing Olympics. The annual Liffey Descent Canoe Race passes through Celbridge and where competitors have to navigate the Vanessa weir and Castletown rapids.

Celbridge Youth Drama

Celbridge Youth Drama was founded in 2002 to provide an outlet for young people in the Celbridge area, between the ages of 15 and 25 who have an interest in all aspects of Drama - on stage and behind the scenes.

Churches and Parishes

The modern parish of Celbridge and Straffan comprises the medieval parishes of Kildrought and Straffan as well as the former parishes of Stacumny, Donaghcomper, Killadoon, Castledillon and Kilmacredock. Donaghcomper Church (c1150) had windows of cut stone inserted into the building in the fourteenth century. Its ruins are extant in the main graveyard for the town of Celbridge on the Dublin road and Memebrs of the Alan family are buried in the church vault. The old parish of Donaghcomper consisted of the modern townlands of Parsonstown, Rinnawad, Ballyoulster, Commons, Coneyburo, Coolfitch, Donaghcomper, Elm Hall, Loughlinstown, Newtown, Reeves, Simmonstown, Straleek and St. Wolstans. The parish of Stacumny (Teach Cumni) originally included the townlands of Ballymadeer, Balscott and Stacumny. The church was bruned in 1297, held in 1308 by a parson, Waleys, but not mentioned subsequently. Killadoon from Cill an Dún may get its name from the earthen mound that still stands by the gate leading into the grounds surrounding Killadoon House. On the left hand side of the avenue, as you enter through the gate, there is an overgrown churchyard with some headstones. Killadoon parish embraced the present townlands of Ardrass, Ballymakealy, Crippaun, Killadoon, Killenlea and Posseckstown. Kilmacredock is the smallest of the medieval parishes. A roofless ruin is all that remains of the original church. named for Redoc had a son who established a religious foundation south west of the present town of Leixlip. Bellingham family members were buried in a vault in the floor of the building, but their remains were removed in the mid 20th century.

Claims to fame

* Celbridge is the largest town in Ireland to have only one commercial street, and no town council despite its large population.[citation needed] * Weston Airport served as a location for the aerial scenes during the filming of The Blue Max directed by John Guillermin (1966). * Castletown House served as a location for the 1975 film Barry Lyndon directed by Stanley Kubrick and several subsequent TV and film productions. * Graham Linehan, writer and co-creator of hit TV series "Father Ted", was married in the church on main street. Celbridge is also mentioned in an episode of Father Ted, and an episode of Alan Partridge that Linehan scripted. * Celbridge served as summer residence to two Lord Lieutenants of Ireland prior to the building of the Viceregal Lodge in the Phoenix Park, Castletown House in the 1740s and St Wolstan’s in the 1770s. * Celbridge was where Eoghan Rua Ó Néill and Thomas Preston pitched their joint camp in June 1647 preparing for an attack on Dublin which never took place. * Celbridge, best known for Damien Rice, is also home to the bands Juniper, Bell X1 and Mary Kate Geraghty, lead singer of Fight Like Apes. * Barbra Streisand performed in Celbridge at Castletown House on 14 July 2007 as part of her European tour.

Collegiate School (Setanta Hotel)

The former Collegiate School on the Clane Road was built from 1732 by architect Thomas Burgh - who also built the Royal Barracks and famous library building at Trinity College - both in Dublin. The Collegiate School was founded as a charity school by Lady Louisa Conolly of Castletown (1743-1821). At the time of Lady Louisa's death it had 600 pupils, and served as a boarding school for Protestant girls until 1973. when the Incorporated Society for Promoting Protestant Schools in Ireland closed the school and transferred the pupils to Kilkenny. [28]. The building reopened as the Setanta Hotel on January 25 1980.

Cricket and Polo

A cricket club was active 1880-1902. Kildare county polo club had their grounds on Castletown Estate 1901-1906. Among those who played polo in Celbridge was Prince Heinrich, younger brother to Kaiser William II[38].

Demographics

Celbridge is the third largest town in County Kildare, the 22nd largest town in the state, and the 36th largest on the island of Ireland. The population increased by 7.8% between 2002 and 2006. Historically this was the town's most rapid growth rate in absolute terms (3,011 in four years). In percentage terms it was a slowdown on previous growth rates which were at one stage the highest in Ireland. As of the census[2] of 2006, there were 17,262 people ([3]) in Celbridge of which 8,732 were male and 8,530 female, 4,307 (25pc) were aged 0–14, 2,678 (15.5pc) were aged 15–24, 6,219 (35pc) were aged 35–44, 3,400 (19.7pc) were aged 45–64 and 658 (3.6pc) were aged 65 years and over. Of these 9,586 were single, 6,602 were married, 715 were widowed and 359 were separated. Only 4,146 (24.4pc) of the 16,980 who were recorded by the census as “usually resident in Celbridge” had been born in Co Kildare. 10,071 (59.3pc) had been born elsewhere in Ireland and 2,763 (16.3pc) were born outside of Ireland.

Description

Population (2006) Celbridge (Cill Droichid in Irish) is a town on the River Liffey in County Kildare in Ireland, 22 kilometres (13 miles) from Dublin City. As a town within the Dublin Metropolitan Area and the Greater Dublin Area, Celbridge has expanded dramatically in recent years. It is located at the intersection of the R403 and R405 regional roads.

Development

Six main residential and commercial areas were developed in Celbridge over a period of 250 years, Main Street (1720-50), Tea (or Tay) Lane (1760), Maynooth Road (1790, when construction of Jasmine Lodge replaced six cabins on Main Street and eight cabins on Maynooth Road), [25] English Row (1805-11), Ballyoulster (1948-51), and St Patrick’s Park (two phases 1954-57 and 1964-‘67). The historical population of the town in the 19th and 20th century period closely mirrored periods of activity and cyclical closure of the town's woollen mills, once the largest in the country.

Development of name

The old Irish name Cill Droichid (Kildrought), meaning the church of the bridge, was anglicised first to Cell-bridge and then, after 1724, to Celbridge. Swift in his letters to Vanessa always named the place Kildrought, but she replied from Celbridge.

Education

Celbridge has five primary schools:Primrose Hill (co-ed, COI), Scoil Naomh Bríd (St. Bridget's) (girls, RC), Aghards (Scoil Mochua) (co-ed, RC), Scoil na Mainistreach (Boys, RC) and North Kildare Educate Together (co-ed, multi-denominational); one special school, Saint Raphael's,(co-ed, RC) for children with a learning disability; two secondary schools; St Wolstan's Community School for girls (the only single sex community school in Ireland) and Salesian College Celbridge for boys. A sixth primary school, St Patrick's opened in September 2007 on the Hazelhatch Road due to the rising population. Celbridge also has one of the very few Primary Montessori Schools in Ireland, The Glebe Junior Montessori School (est. 1978). Providing Montessori education to children from 3–12 years, from nursery and Junior infants up to 6th class, its building is located on the grounds of Barnhall Rugby Club.

Etymology

The name Celbridge is derived from the Irish Cill Droichid meaning "Church by the Bridge" and has sometimes been spelled Kildrought in English[1].

Fishing in the River Liffey

Salmon and Sea trout: 1 January to 30 September : Brown Trout: 1 March to 30 September The Liffey brown trout are not very big but they are there in good numbers and the water is clean. Trout are found from Islandbridge upstream but the best of the trout fishing is above Leixlip and all the way to Ballymore Eustace.[2] There are many spots along the river in Celbridge for fishing, from quiet spots in Castletown Grounds or beyond Vanessa Weir to the noisier spot on the wall of the bridge or the footbridge.

GAA

Celbridge GAA park and centre on the Hazelhatch Road was opened in 1996, ending 52 years without a home, the club having lost its field in Ballymakealy after a bitter court case in 1944. The Celbridge GAA club is the third oldest club in Kildare being formed on the 15 August 1885, eight months after the GAA was founded in Thurles. In 1890 there were two clubs in the parish, one based in Kilwogan, Celbridge Shamrocks with 64 members with officers listed as WJ Sheridan, Hugh Maguire, Luke Ward and Thomas Connor and the other at Hazelhatch where Irish Harpers had 70 members with officers listed as Ambrose Dwyer, Christy Fitzsimons, Michael Saunders and John Cantwell. Celbridge play at senior level in both codes. They won their first Kildare Senior Football Championship in 2008, defeating Newbridge Sarsfields by 1-9 to 0-10, the Kildare Senior Hurling Championship in 1921, 1925 and 2005 and Kildare Senior Camogie Championship in 2005. They were defeated senior football semi-finalists in 1989, the senior football amalgamated side (with Straffan) lost two replayed SF semi-finals in 1974 and 1975 and lost the Senior League final in 1924 and 2008. They were junior football champions in 1923, 1958 and 1986 and Intermediate Football Champions in 1987. Susan O'Carroll and Deirdre Corcoran have been nominated for national All-Star awards in camogie. Celbridge born George Magan was an All-Ireland medalist in 1919. Mark Shaw, Brian Donovan, and Mick Wright played senior football for Kildare.

Housing estates

Celbridge was rezoned for rapid growth under the 1967 Kildare Development Plan. That year a consortium of Brian and Tony Rhattigan and the McMullan brother, who owned the Maxol group, purchased most of the former Castletown Estate for development purposes. Planning permission was granted on appeal for a suburban housing estate along the edge of the avenue leading into Castletown House. In response Desmond Guinness personally bought the house in 1967 to save the immediate hinterland from development and established the Irish Georgian Society in the building. Permission was granted for the first development of 400 houses within the Castletown Gates in 1969 and the first phase of Castletown Estate was opened by Minister for Industry & Commerce Justin Keating on October 1 1975. This was followed by more than 30 multiple housing developments over the next thirty years. The 1986 census listed Celbridge (+54.9pc) as the fastest growing town in Ireland. The population, which had been 1,514 in 1966, rose to 1,744 in 1971, 3,230 in 1979, 4,583 in 1981, 7,135 in 1986, 9,629 in 1991, 12,289 in 1996, 14,251 in 2002 and 17,262 in 2006. This new population had a higher proportion of younger people than similar sized towns, had a higher proportion of commuters and one of the highest proportions of clerical workers on the island. Large estate developments included Abbeyfarm (1990), Beatty Park (1987), Castle Village (1986-90), Castletown Walled Gardens (1983), Castletown Estate (1975-82), Crodaun Forest Park (opened October 1978), the Grove (1979), Oldtown Mill (1999), Primrose Gate (2006), St Raphael’s Manor (1994-98), Wolstan Abbey (2006) and Wolstan Haven (1999). Medium size developments included Ballygoran View (1998), Beatty Grove (1992), Celbridge Abbey (1992), Dara Court (1976-80), Priory Lodge & Priory Square (1999), Simmonstown Manor (2000), Temple Manor (1992-97), Thornhill Gardens/ Heights (1998), Thornhill Meadows/Ashgrove (1998), Vanessa Lawns (1984), Willowbrook (1984-86). Small estate developments include Ballygoran Court, Ballymakealy Grove/Lawns (2000), Chelmsford (1991), Chestnut Grove (1999), the Courtyard (2001), Elm Park (1994), Grattan Court (1994), Hawthorn View (1992), Killadoon Park (1992), Larchfield Mews, Oakleigh (1979), Simmonstown Park (1980), Small Grove, Temple Lawns/Primrose Hill (1990). A 2008 planning application by Devondale Ltd for a new Eu750m mixed-use development at Donaghcumper Demesne for offices, shops, restaurants, six-screen cinema and 108 detached houses on the 98-acre (400,000 m2) site, which is being promoted as “a natural extension” to Celbridge, has been criticised by local planners for being “on a city scale rather than a more acceptable town scale.”

Kildrought to Celbridge

The houses in Celbridge town centre were built over a period of two hundred years, starting with Celbridge Abbey, built in 1703 by a Dutchman, Bartholomew Van Homrigh, who was appointed Chief Commissioner for the Stores in Ireland for the forces of William And Mary, and moved to Kildrought Manor in 1695. When William “Speaker” Conolly purchased the Castletown Estate in 1709 from Thomas Dongan, the restored Earl of Limerick and later governor of New York, he complained that "all the Earl's tenants were beggars". Conolly built his new mansion at Castletown, cleared the existing tenantry and began to develop the town. Improvers and speculative developers followed Conolly to Celbridge. The new leases were granted on condition that the builders erect substantial stone houses with gable ends and two chimneys, replacing mud cabins and waste ground. Existing mercantile buildings such as the 17th century Market House, where the town's first school was based in 1709, were incorporated in to the expanding mill complex of buildings near the bridge and developers began to look at the green field sites to the north east of the bridge towards in the direction of Castletown House. The result was to move the axis of Celbridge away from the bridge, corn and tuck mill and road to St Mochua's church to a new Main Street.

Lived briefly or were educated in Celbridge

* William Baillie (1723–1810), art dealer and printmaker, was the second son of Robert Baillie of Celbridge. * John Wynn Baker (c.1730–1775), who established the first factory in Ireland in 1765 is buried at Celbridge. * Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996), writer, lived for a time in Castletown, originally with her husband, the depressive American poet Robert Lowell (1917–1977) and then with the poet Andrew Harvey (b 1951). * Francis Carey, a bricklayer and father of James Carey the Fenian informer immortalized in George D Hodnett’s song “Take me up to Monto” was from Celbridge. * Henry Grattan (1746-1821) renowned 18th Irish patriot politician, lived with his uncle Colonel Thomas Marlay at Celbridge Abbey between 1777 and 1780. He afterwards wrote: "Along the banks of that river, amid the groves and bowers of Swift and Vanessa, I grew convinced that I was right[37]." * Richard McIlkenny (1934-2006), member of the Birmingham Six miscarriage of justice case, resided in the town until his death on 22 May 2006. * Those educated at Celbridge include the disabled world traveller and politician Arthur Macmorrough Kavanagh, (1831–1889), Church of Ireland bishop John Jebb (1775–1833), and broadcaster Ruth Buchanan.

Oakley Park (St Raphael's)

Oakley Park, the current St. Raphael's hospital was built in 1724 to a design by Thomas Burgh for Arthur Price, when he was created Church of Ireland Bishop of Meath. The house was built close to the small stone house of his father vicar of Kildrought and Straffan Samuel Price. Dr Price had previously been Bishop of Clonfert, Ferns & Leighlin, and later became Archbishop of Cashel. After his departure for Cashel, Oakley Park became home to Col George Napier, Richard Maunsell, High Sheriff of Kildare and his descendants, and, in 1926 Justin McCarthy. In 1946 it was purchased sold by Philip Guiney the Irish Christian Brothers for use as an industrial school [26] but sold instead to the St John Of God Brothers and opened as St Raphael's Hospital, a home for intellectually disabled boys in 1953.[27]. The grand parents of Henry Grattan are buried in a private graveyard on the site.

Origins

There is evidence of 5,000 years of habitation as evidenced by beads and quern stones in the National Museum from Griffinrath and the nearby high ground sloping down to the Liffey. Recent research has linked Celbridge with the Slí Mór possibly crossing the Liffey at a ford located below the site of the mill directly east of the bridge rather than at Castletown House, as previously thought. The etymology of the church at Donaghcumper (church of the confluence, "Domhnach" is one of the earliest Irish words for church) suggests it may have existed as a monastic site from the 5th century. Folklore and heroic literature associate the north bank of Celbridge with both Saint Patrick (hill and church of uncertain antiquity in Ardrass) and Saint Mochua (c570), who was associated with a church in Tea Lane and a well on the site of the current mill where pagan converts were baptised.

Other Houses

Other large houses outside the town[30] include Killadoon a three storey block with a single storey wing built c1770, (redecorated 1820) for Nathanial Clements MP, banker and amateur architect. Siginificantly, it does not appeared to have been designed by Clements himself. Pickering Forest is a three storey Georgian house associated with the Brooke (Barons Somerton) and later Ogilby families [31]. Donaghcomper, a Tudor revival house built from William Kirkpatrick c1835, was sold after the death of Ivone Kirkpatrick to J Bruce Bredin, Springfield, associated with the Mitchell family until 1906 [32]. Elm Hall was associated with the O’Connor family, Stacumny associated with the Lambert family, Ballygoran associated with the Murray family, while The Grove was home of Dr CJ O’Connor. Robert Scott’s house (rebuilt 1780, locally known as the "Shelbourne') fell into ruin and became the site of St Patrick’s Park housing estate.

Other Industry

John Wynn Baker (c.1730–1775), agricultural improver and writer, established the first factory in Ireland in 1765 with the financial assistance of the Dublin Society on a 354-acre (1.43 km2) property in Loughlinstown near the newly constructed Grand Canal at Hazlehatch for manufacturing agricultural implements. One of Celbridge’s most original industries was the Callender Paper Company established in Celbridge in 1903 to make paper from peat. Despite the report in the Irish Times of 25/6/1904 that facilities of the company were “totally inadequate to cope with demand” and that “Celbridge peat paper is finding its way into almost every village and hamlet in Ireland” the enterprise had already run into financial trouble by November 1904. In 1977 French electrical group invested £6m in establishing a factory on the Maynooth Road, employing 500 people at peak. Schnieder MGTE group closed the factory in September 2003.

Parish of Kildrought

The original Kildrought parish church (built 14th century, burned 1798) stood in the present graveyard at Tea Lane and houses the mausoleums of the Dongan and Conolly families. It was granted by the Normans to the Abbey of St Thomas in Dublin. Pre-Norman churches served the adjoining parishes in Donaghcumper and Stacumny (mentioned 1176) to the east, Kilmacreddock to the north east, the tiny parish of Donaghmore (plundered 1150, mentioned in letter 1190) further to the north, Laraghbryan (plundered 1036 and 1171) to the north west, and Killadoon to the south.

Politics

Celbridge is located within the Kildare North constituency which elects four TDs to the Dáil. In the past it was only a three seat constituency, but has increased to four due to population growth within the region. Irish law allows for town councils for towns with a population of greater than 7,500, which Celbridge exceeds twice over, however, despite its size and several proposals, the town does not have a town council. Smaller towns in the area do, such as Leixlip and Athy. Kildare County Council, responsible for the whole county, have full control over zoning land in the area.

Rail

Iarnród Éireann runs commuter rail services to a station through Hazelhatch, 3 km from Celbridge village. Hazelhatch and Celbridge railway station opened on 4 August 1846 and closed for goods traffic on 9 June 1947.[4] Feeder buses are used to bring passengers to the train station. Commuter suburban rail services from Kildare to Dublin city centre serve Hazelhatch. While the service only brings passengers to Heuston Station, west of the city centre, there is no charge for extending the range of most tickets to include feeder bus (numbers 90 and 92) from there to the city centre. Additional charges apply to use the Luas tram services[5]. The station is located on one of the most important InterCity lines in the country, with services Dublin to Cork, Limerick and Galway. Most inter-city trains do not stop at Hazelhatch station. Under the Transport 21 plan Hazelhatch-City will be electrified to provide a new DART service to Balbriggan, using the underground Interconnector tunnel in the city centre. This is to be completed by 2015.

Road

Celbridge's growth has created traffic congestion, much of caused by the single bridge over the Liffey, which creates a traffic bottleneck. The Celbridge Interchange (Junction 2a of the M4 motorway), which connects the town to both the motorway and Intel, opened in 2003 to help address these traffic issues. Kildare County Council installed a set of traffic lights in 2000 at the junction of the Liffey bridge and Main Street, however local businesses were very opposed to the traffic lights as they felt they took away business, and the traffic lights were turned off. Shortly afterwards the lights were destroyed in a traffic accident and they were not replaced.

Rugby

Celbridge Rugby Club, founded by Fr Joseph Furlong, competed in the Towns Cup in 1928-29. Celbridge players compete in the All Ireland League with Barnhall.

Scouting

There are three separate Scout troops in operation in Celbridge. Each troop accepts both boys and girls in the 3 main program sections, and are: 1st Kildare (2nd Celbridge), 3rd Kildare (1st Celbridge), and 19th Kildare.

See also

* List of towns and villages in Ireland * Market Houses in Ireland

Soccer

The town's two main soccer clubs are Ballyoulster United (an amateur football club which partner with English Premier Division club Everton F.C.[1]), and Celbridge Town AFC which was formed in 1959 and plays home games in St Patricks Park, with eight schoolboy teams and three senior teams. The Senior Sunday team currently play in the Leinster Senior League Division 1A, and played Longford Town in the 2007 FAI Ford Cup 2nd Round. The teams play in the blue and white, and are sponsored by the Kildrought Lounge. Vincent McKenna played youth international for Ireland and for League of Ireland side Shelbourne in the 1970s. Celbridge competed in the Leinster Junior cup in 1908-9.

Sports and Hobbies

Celbridge equine racecourse is mentioned in the Freeman’s Journal of 27/9/1763 and 04/10/1763 but was not in use after the end of the 18th century. Locally trained horse Workman, trained by Jack Ruttle out of Hazelhatch Stud was the winner of the Aintree Grand National in 1939. A point to point meeting was held at nearby Windgaps 1912-54.

St Wolstan's

St Wolstan’s, near the site of the ancient Abbey of St Wolstan’s described by Mervyn Archdall in his "Monasticon Hibernicum" in 1786 was originally a monastery in the Order of St Victor. It was founded c1202 by one of Strongbow’s companions for Adam de Hereford. It was named for St Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, then newly canonised by Pope Innocent III. Before the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries it had extensive lands in Kildare and Dublin with buildings covering an estimated 20 acres[29]. It was the first Irish Monastery to be dissolved when Sir Gerald Aylmer of nearby Lyons (d. 1559). It became the home to the ill fated Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Dublin John Alen (1476–1534). St Wolstan’s and the Archbishop’s cousin, also John Alen, who was master of the rolls, travelled with Aylmer to England in 1536 to receive the bill for suppression of the Irish monasteries. The act of St Wolstan's, introduced in September 1536 as a special commission of dissolution, assured Aylmer and his fellow chief justice and brother-in-law Thomas Luttrell an annual rent of £4 during the life of Sir Richard Weston, the last prior, while Alen was granted the monastery estates. The house remained with the Alen family for two subsequent centuries. St Wolstan’s was then home to later Bishops of Clogher (Robert Clayton) and Limerick, a summer resident of the Viceroy in the 1770s, a boy’s school (sold 1809), home to the Cane family for another century and eventually a girl’s school (1957-2002).

Temple Mills

The oldest mill in the area is Temple Mills, [8] operated by the Tyrrell family for 300 years, 2 km outside the town on the Ardclough Road. Joseph Shaw's flax and flour mills was a major employer in the town [9] until its closure after the death of William Shaw[10][11].

Templeplace: A Vanished Town

The now disappeared town of Templeplace is recording as having a population of 279 in 1841, 310 in 1851, 382 in 1861, 402 in 1871 and was, after 1881, included in the townland of Newtown “on which it stood” as it "did not contain 20 inhabited houses." A footnote to the census returns comments “the decline in population is attributed to the discontinuance of the flax mill”. The population of Newtown in 1891 was 128, down from 145[12].

Tennis

Celrbidge tennis club founded by EJ Connolly, Fr Joseph Furlong, Rev ELB Barker, Mrs Barker and Capt RJC Maunsell in 1923 established itself as the centre of social life in the district. The premises on the Hazelhatch Road were opened in the 1970s.

Town of Kildrought

The town of Kildrought or Kildroighid developed around the castle, monastery and mill of Kildrought which Thomas de-Hereford, the Norman Lord of Kildrought erected early in the thirteenth century. The one long street running between the de Hereford Castle and lands of Castletown, and the mill, had taken shape by 1314 when Henry le Waleys was charged at a Naas court of “breaking the doors” of houses in the town of Kildrought and by night “taking geese, hens, beer and other victuals” against the will of the people of the town. By the time of the Down Survey (1654-56) the population was 102 and the Dongan family were in possession of all the land in Celbridge. Killadoon House was the home of John Dongan’s brother in law Richard Talbot Earl of Tyrconnell. Dongan died at the Battle of the Boyne and is buried in Tea Lane cemetery. Talbot died immediately before the Siege of Limerick. His widow remained in Killadoon, outliving the two men who took over the town from her husband and John Dongan, Bartholomew Van Homrigh and William Conolly. The 18th century bridge had to be rebuilt after it was destroyed in a flood in December 1802[6]

Workhouse

Celbridge workhouse was constructed between 1839 and 1841 and is the smallest of three workhouses in County Kildare. It was built at a cost of stg£6,800 and was designed to house 519 people from Celbridge, Lucan, Rathcoole, Leixlip, Maynooth and Kilcock, an area containing 25,424 people. A site on the Maynooth road has a memorial to between 1,500 and 2,500 inmates who died and were buried there during the Great Famine of 1845-47, recently restored by the community. According to Tony Doohan’s “History of Celbridge” during the worst of this disaster, a human being died every hour. Another historian Seamus Cummins suggest that the effects of the famine in the Celbridge Poor Law District area were less traumatic than elsewhere (such as south Kildare) because of the availability of wage-economy employment in the district. After the 1860s the workhouse was used as a fever hospital, regarded as progressive for its time, as a home for the elderly and infirm, and for unmarried mothers. Orphans and illegitimate children were fostered out in to the village community from the workhouse and also from the Holy Faith convents in Dublin. In 1918 the workhouse was used as a base by the U.K. Army and, after 1922 the Free State army. It was visited by General Michael Collins and there are claims that the barracks was the first in which the uniform of the new Free State army was worn. After 1923 the workhouse was closed and the barracks vacated. By 1933 the Union Paint factory had been established on the site and in 1934 there were plans for a rope factory by Henry's from Cork Street in Dublin. In 1939 the current Garda barracks was built on part of the workhouse site.