16 Facts About County Kildare

County Kildare is the 24th-largest of Ireland's 32 counties in area and the seventh largest in terms of population.

The highest point in County Kildare is Cupidstown Hill on the border with South Dublin, with the better known Hill of Allen in central County Kildare.

County Kildare has three major rivers running through it: the Barrow, the Liffey and the Boyne.

County Kildare was shired in 1297 and assumed its present borders in 1832, following amendments to remove a number of enclaves and exclaves.

County Kildare was formerly divided into the rural districts of Athy No 1, Celbridge No 1, Edenderry No 2, and Naas No 1, and the urban districts of Athy and Naas.

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At the 2020 Irish general election, County Kildare North returned Catherine Murphy, Reada Cronin, Bernard Durkan, and James Lawless, while County Kildare South returned Sean O Fearghail, Patricia Ryan, Martin Heydon, and Cathal Berry .

East County Kildare's population has increased rapidly, for example, the amount of housing in the Naas suburb of Sallins has increased sixfold since the mid-1990s.

County Kildare hospitals include Naas General Hospital and Clane General Hospital.

County Kildare is served by the trains connecting with Dublin, southern Leinster, Munster and Connacht, with daily connections to Cork, Waterford, Limerick, and Galway.

County Kildare is the centre of Ireland's Grand Canal network built in the late 18th century.

However, since then County Kildare has reached the All-Ireland Football Championship Final on four occasions, the last being in 1998, but has failed on all four attempts.

County Kildare is known as the Shortgrass County which is a reference to how short the grass is on the commons of the Curragh.

Also located in County Kildare are two other courses, Punchestown Racecourse, home of the National Hunt Festival of Ireland, and Naas Racecourse, which runs both National Hunt and Flat meetings and is used by top racehorse trainers as a test for horses preparing for the Cheltenham festival.

County Kildare is famous for the quality of horses bred in the many stud farms to which it is home, including the Irish National Stud and many other top studs such as Gilltown, Moyglare and Kildangan Stud, and race horse training establishments, such as the Osborne Stables.

County Kildare is the home to Mondello Park, Ireland's only international motorsport venue.

Kildare County F C was a League of Ireland club from 2002 until 2009, based in Newbridge, where Leinster Senior League side Newbridge Town F C was invited to join the league in 2002 a broader Kildare-based franchise was created instead, playing out of Station Road, Newbridge.