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Kildare (town)

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Kildare

Market town in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland, 48 km/30 mi southwest of Dublin; population (2002) 5,700. Kildare is the centre of the Irish horse-breeding and training industry, and the national stud is located at nearby Tully; the town also has meat-processing industries. An ecclesiastic settlement was founded at Kildare by St Brigid in AD 470. The Protestant St Brigid's Cathedral incorporates a 10th-century round tower and the ruins of a 13th-century church.

Tully, 1 km/0.6 mi away, also has the remains of a community of Knights Hospitallers (the Order of St John); Japanese gardens laid out in 1906; and a horse museum at the Irish National Stud.
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