Eadestown

Eadestown Baile Éide
Village
Eadestown village
Eadestown Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°12′10″N 6°34′40″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	County Kildare
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Eadestown (/ˈiːdstaʊn/, locally /ˈeɪds-/; Irish: Baile Éide[1]) is a townland and parish in County Kildare, Ireland. It is situated on the R410 Regional Road south of Naas, between Naas and Blessington, County Wicklow.

Eadestown Parish

The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Eadestown

The Parish of Eadestown is composed of the civil parishes of Rathmore, Kilteel, Tipper and Haynestown. Its churches include the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Eadestown and St. Laurence O'Toole, Kilteel.^[citation needed]

In 1995-2004 the parish was run by the "racing" priest Fr. Sean Breen.[2] Breen's "Heavenly syndicate" won €170,000 from one of its horses in 2002-2003.[3]

The parish church was altered and renovated by the noted church architect John Joseph Robinson, of Robinson and Keefe Architects for Rev.W. Lockhart P.P. in 1923. He subsequently designed the cathedral of Our Lady and St. Nicholas in Galway.^[citation needed]

Tickell Memorial Fountain

A cast-iron fountain in the village, dated 1899, was erected in memory of Captain Thomas Tickell (1817-98) of Cheltenham in Gloucester by his County Kildare tenantry. It was cast by Tonge and Taggart (established 1869) of Dublin to designs by John Joseph O'Callaghan (c.1838-1905) of Nassau Street, Dublin. The fountain was designed for drinking at three levels with the lion-head spouts for humans, the circular trough for horses and the quarter-circle dishes at ground level for hounds.[4][5] The fountain is now disused.

Sport

Eadestown GAA club is based in Eadestown. The team won the Kildare Senior Football Championship in 1970. The club fields underage teams and also competes in the Kildare Senior Championship.

Punchestown Racecourse is also located in Eadestown and this hosts many annual meetings, including the national hunt festival, which is usually held in late April.

Notable people

• Tadhg Beirne, international rugby union player for the Irish national team[6][7]
• Jimmy O'Brien, international rugby union player for the Irish national team[6][7]
• Diarmuid Kilgallen, rugby player with the Connacht rugby team[6]
• Rowan Osborne, rugby player who formerly played for Leinster and Munster[6][7]

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

1. "Baile Éide/Eadestown". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
2. "Fond farewell to Kildare's racing priest - Kildare Today". leinsterleader.ie. Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
3. "Racing: Why Father Sean's forecasts could be the answer to your". independent.co.uk. The Independent. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
4. "Tickell Memorial Fountain, Newtown (Rathmore ED), Eadestown, Kildare". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
5. "Captain Tickell's Fountain Eadestown". irishantiquities.bravehost.com. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
6. "Leinster's Jimmy O'Brien the latest off the Eadestown production line". irishexaminer.com. Irish Examiner. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
7. "Eadestown GAA proves a fertile breeding ground for rugby success". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 27 February 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2023.