Kildare, inland Irish county, in Leinster, in the upper basins of the Liffey and Barrow, W. of Dublin and Wicklow; is level and fertile, with the great Bog of Allen in the N., and in the centre the Curragh, a grassy plain; agriculture is carried on in the river basins; the county town is Naas (4); other towns Maynooth, with the Roman Catholic theological college, and Kildare.
Population (circa 1900) given as 70,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kilda, St. * Kilian, St.