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National School (1834). Boston Lime Company reduced the price to six shillings per load in 1875 but a footnote in the 1891 census returns attributes the decline in population from 75 to 21 in Ardclough townland to the closure of quarries. Stone was brought by light railway to the nearby quays and by canal barge to Sullivan's lime kiln. Ardclough limestone was used in the construction of Naas jail and hospital. The census reports of the mid-19th century indicate how the small townland of Ardclough came to give its name to the adjoining district, but by 1901 there were only six people living there.
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peaking at 379.045 tons in 1865 when an average of 90 barges a day passed through
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Christy Phelan was killed when he engaged a group of men planting a bomb on the railway line near Baronrath. The bomb was designed to derail the train headed for the Republican Wolfe Tone commemoration at Bodenstown. His selfless intervention prevented greater loss of life. This is one of a
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in 1693. The centre of the parish moved to Kill in 1823. The former Lyons parish church (built 1810, refurbished 1896) was deconsecrated in 1985 and is now a private house. It was replaced by a new church in
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Limestone quarries (sinkhole recorded 1804) made
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five times during his lifetime. The canal was an important, if slow, passenger thoroughfare feeding passenger's to John Barry's hotel at Lyons. When in 1834 Flyboats increased the average speed for passenger boats from 3 mph (4.8 km/h) to 9 mph (14 km/h) Ireland's first railway
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When the GAA club (1936), community hall (1940, reconstructed 2004) and school (1950) were built on a crossroads beneath Henry Bridge, and it shifted the focus of the community to a site in
Tipperstown, which is regarded as the modern Ardclough. The population was boosted by houses built at
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on 5 October 1853, the third-worst in Irish rail history, killed 18 people including four children in the townland of
Clownings. It occurred in heavy fog when a goods train ran into the back of a stalled passenger train at a point 974 yards south of the former
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The soil is principally a rich loam, varying from 10 to 16 inches (410 mm) in depth, and resting on a hard and compact substratum of floetz limestone. The water table is unusually high. The low group of nearby hills, which includes
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passes within a one kilometre radius. The main transport arteries to the south and south west of Ireland pass through, the main railway line to Cork and Tralee, the canal to Shannonbridge, and the N7 which passes nearby.
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laid out Ireland's first golf course. Ardclough had a soccer club briefly in 1941-3. Basil Phipps launched his motorcycle racing career in 1947 and hosted a number of racing events at his home in Clonaghlis.
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The area provides a combination of hill, wood and water habitats. More than 35 species of birds have been identified and coarse fishing for pike, perch, roach and rudd is common along the canal bank.
1265:(1750â1817), lawyer, patriot and friend of Valentine Lawless, had his body deposited temporarily in the mausoleum at Lyons before being removed to a grave at Glasnevin, where it now reposes.
456:(feast day 8 March) and site of a round tower. Recent research has estimated that the ruined church there dates to 1350, not 1609 as previously believed. It was the site of a Royal Manor.
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Station. The goods train smashed the first-class carriage, which was driven a quarter of a mile through station. The tragedy was the subject of a poem by Donegal-born poet
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began in 1756 Ardclough's was one of the first sections to be dug. The canal reached Ardclough in 1763, when the 13th lock, a 137 feet (42 m) double lock built with
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for the Internal Market and Services (2004-2010) grew up on the Grand Canal in the lock house at 14th lock and played under-age hurling and football for Ardclough.
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The biggest train robbery to date in the history of Ireland took place at Kearneystown on 31 March 1976 when ÂŁ150,000 was taken from the Dublin-Cork mail train.
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number of British undercover operations carried out against civilian targets in the Republic during the Troubles, currently under investigation by the
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Hall, DN, Hennessy, M, and O'Keeffe, Tadhg Medieval Agriculture and Settlement in Castlewarden and Oughterard in "Irish Geography" Vol 18 1985 pp16-25
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Lloyd, Joseph H.: The identification of the battlefield of Glenn Mama, A.D. 1000, JCKAS Vol. VII, No. 6 (July 1914) pp365-372.
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Taylor, Alexander, "Alexander Taylor's Map of Co. Kildare," in 6 sheets, made for the Grand Jury. Reissued by the RIA in 1983
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1149:(1828â1914), botanical artist, lived in Ardclough between April 1853 when she moved to the family's newly acquired mill at
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1119:(1744â1806), leader of the Irish Whigs (1789â1803).
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1021:(1773-1853), a local landlord and member of the
350:Grand Canal Towpath at Ardclough, County Kildare
1297:is buried in the family vault of the Wolfes in
255:, Ireland. It is two miles (3 km) off the
1735:Allingham, William: Day and Night Songs (1854)
954:Ardclough had a brass band which performed at
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1847:Census returns, 1891, Volume 1 Leinster, p267
1418:Lesiw, Samuel, "Topography of Ireland" (1835)
1081:in 1412 for supporting the Lancastrian cause.
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2033:GAA club website featuring local information
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1069:(1393â1452), popularly known as 'the White
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1376:"Placenames Database of Ireland: Ardclogh"
1320:Ardclough Churches 1985 Souvenir Brochure.
909:(1930â92) rode two winners of the English
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1198:(1755â1817), opposition leader in the
1168:Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry
1019:Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry
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1117:William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby
698:Great Southern & Western Railway
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2017:Ardclough Community Council website
1762:Freemanâs Journal, 29 November 1917
1279:, who was agent and receiver of Dr
1783:"Houses of the Oireachtas website"
16:Village in County Kildare, Ireland
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1067:James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond
1031:(1840-1928), local landlord and
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1829:Irish Times, 28 November 1879
1214:in a house formerly owned by
1099:, heir to the British throne.
1838:Irish Times, 19 January 1875
1143:some years before his death.
21:Village in Leinster, Ireland
2479:Geography of County Kildare
1409:Liffey Champion 14 Jan 2011
1206:Party (1808â1817), born in
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1277:Bishopscourt
1246:Mary Redmond
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1107:Bishopscourt
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2084:County town
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1075:Anglo-Irish
978:(1943) and
968:Fianna FĂĄil
915:Quare Times
883:Star Appeal
852:Kildare GAA
749:Whitechurch
537:Thomas Omer
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523:Grand canal
517:Grand Canal
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936:Fionn Carr
931:Oughterard
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899:Pat Taaffe
857:Ardclough
836:Hazlehatch
775:Oughterard
533:Pozzuolona
466:Clonaghlis
406:MĂĄel MĂłrda
402:Brian Boru
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376:Royal site
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2458:River Rye
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2207:Allenwood
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976:Fine Gael
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117:Country
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2472:Topics
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1151:Lyons
1141:Lyons
950:Clubs
822:Sport
769:with
653:+2.7%
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501:Lyons
485:Lyons
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303:Lyons
241:Irish
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