18 Facts About Celbridge

Celbridge is a town and townland on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Ireland.

Name Celbridge is derived from the Irish Cill Droichid meaning "Church of bridge" or "Church by the bridge".

Celbridge was for a period the third largest town in County Kildare.

Celbridge has one of the very few Primary Montessori Schools in Ireland, Weston Primary Montessori School, which was established in 2016 by the parents and teachers of the former Glebe School.

Celbridge's growth has created some traffic congestion, including at peak times.

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Celbridge GAA had won its first Kildare Senior Hurling Championship in 1921.

Celbridge players compete in the All Ireland League with MU Barnhall.

Celbridge Paddlers canoeclub is a multidiscipline kayaking club, which was formed in 1984 and is affiliated to the Irish Canoe Union.

Celbridge is located within the Kildare North constituency which elects 4 TDs to the Dail.

Celbridge's widow remained in Killadoon, outliving the two men who took over the town from her husband and John Dongan, Bartholmew Van Homrigh and William Conolly.

Celbridge Abbey was built in 1703 by a Dutch Williamite emigre, Bartholmew Van Homrigh.

Celbridge was appointed Chief Commissioner for Stores in Ireland for the victorious allied forces of William III and Mary II who defeated the Jacobite alliance, and enforced the Treaty of Limerick in 1691.

Celbridge workhouse was constructed between 1839 and 1841 and is the smallest of three workhouses in County Kildare.

Celbridge was rezoned for rapid growth under the 1967 Kildare Development Plan.

Celbridge Abbey was the childhood and later adult home of Bartholomew Van Homrigh's daughter Esther, the ill-starred lover of Dean Swift.

The current Celbridge Abbey was constructed by Thomas Marlay, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, grandfather of the Irish parliamentarian Henry Grattan.

Celbridge is buried in a prominent position on front of the local Catholic church, the construction of which he helped to fund.

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