Kilkea () is a village in

County Kildare County Kildare ( ga, Contae Chill Dara) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Eastern and Midland Region. It is named after the town of Kildare. Kildare County Council is the local authority for the ...

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Carlow Carlow ( ; ) is the county town of County Carlow, in the south-east of Ireland, from Dublin. At the 2016 census, it had a combined urban and rural population of 24,272. The River Barrow flows through the town and forms the historic bounda ...

. The R418

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Athy Athy ( ; ) is a market town at the meeting of the River Barrow and the Grand Canal in south-west County Kildare, Ireland, 72 kilometres southwest of Dublin. A population of 9,677 (as of the 2016 census) makes it the sixth largest town in Ki ...

Tullow Tullow (; , formerly ''Tulach Ó bhFéidhlim/ Tullowphelim'') is a market town in County Carlow, Ireland. It is located on the River Slaney where the N81 road intersects with the R725. , the population was 4,673. History There is a statue ...

passes through the village. JoeGreen

History

Formerly the land of the Ó Tuathails (O'Toole), after the

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Walter de Riddlesford Walter de Riddlesford (''fl.'' 1150 – d. 1226) was an Anglo-Norman lord who was granted in Ireland the baronies of Bray, County Wicklow and Kilkea, County Kildare between 1171 and 1176. De Riddlesford was born in Carriebenan, Kildare, Irela ...

built a

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there about 1180. It is part of the barony of

Kilkea and Moone Kilkea and Moone () is a barony in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. Etymology The barony takes its name from the villages of Kilkea (''Cill Cathaigh'', "Cathac's church") and Moone (''Maen Colmcille'', " Colm Cille's property"). Locatio ...

. Walter de Riddlesford granddaughter, Emmeline Longespee, married

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in 1273, and so the land passed to the Geraldine Earls of Kildare. Its importance as a town diminished after the rebellion of "Silken Thomas", the 10th Earl of Kildare, in 1534.

People

Ernest Shackleton Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of A ...

(1874–1922), Antarctic explorer, was born and spent his childhood at Kilkea House.

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Towns and villages in County Kildare

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