Kildare Town

Parks & Outdoors

Brookfield Wood

Brookfield Wood is a quiet woodland area near Kildangan and Nurney in County Kildare. Best understood as a local natural feature rather than a formal visitor attraction, it adds woodland character, habitat and seasonal interest to the surrounding rural landscape.

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History & Culture

Bran and Sceolan

Bran and Sceolan is a public sculpture in Kildare Town celebrating the legendary hounds of Fionn mac Cumhaill. The artwork connects the modern setting of Kildare Village with the Fenian Cycle, one of Ireland’s great bodies of myth and storytelling.

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Parks & Outdoors

Boston Hill

Boston Hill is a scenic rural hillside near Oughterard and Ardclough in County Kildare. Closely linked with the wider Oughterard heritage landscape, it offers countryside views and sits near important historic features including Oughterard Round Tower, Oughterard Castle and the Arthur’s Way route.

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History & Culture

Black Abbey

Black Abbey, also known as Tully Preceptory, is a medieval Knights Hospitaller site near Kildare Town. Its surviving stone tower, ruined walls and graveyard setting make it one of the area’s most atmospheric historic monuments.

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History & Culture

Tomb of Bishop Walter Wellesley

The Tomb of Bishop Walter Wellesley is a richly carved sixteenth-century monument now preserved in St Brigid’s Cathedral, Kildare Town. Originally from Great Connell Priory near Newbridge, it is one of County Kildare’s most remarkable surviving examples of late medieval stone sculpture.

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History & Culture

An Rath Ring Fort

An Rath Ring Fort is an earthen archaeological monument representing Ireland’s early medieval settlement landscape. Its circular bank and enclosure recall a time when raths served as protected farmsteads for local households, livestock, and everyday rural life.

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Attractions

The Tower on the Hill of Allen

The Tower on the Hill of Allen: Where Myth Meets Stone Drive across the flat plains of Kildare and you can’t miss it — the Hill of Allen rising out of the landscape, crowned with its 19th-century tower. The hill has always carried weight in Irish legend as the stronghold of Fionn mac Cumhaill and […]

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