9th Irish Military Seminar – 13th, 16th & 17th May 2025
Kildare Library & Arts Service are pleased to announce details of the 9th Irish Military, taking place in Naas and Newbridge in May 2025. Copies of the programme are available to pick from any public library branch in County Kildare and also through this link Irish Military Seminar 2025 Tuesday 13th May at 7PM Film Screenings […]
Athy Workhouse Admission and Discharge Register 1875-1878 now online following conservation work
Kildare County Archives holds the surviving Athy Poor Law Union Admission and Discharge Registers for Athy Workhouse which cover the years from 1875 to 1920. The majority of these are in fragile condition and require conservation. Sixteen of the registers and one index volume (PLUA/R/2-18) were microfilmed in 2007 with funding from The Heritage Council […]
Recent Articles
The Choir Band Newbridge, circa 1910
Rent receipt Denis Dempsey, Walshestown
Prospectus For Auction of Ballymore-Eustace Woolen Factory in 1904
Athy Community Library: a Celebration 1965-2025
A Newbridge woman and la résistance
Jigginstown House, summer of ’67
Poor Law Union, Town Commissioners and estate records amongst newly digitised archival material now available online
All Stars v Kildare, 1966
Burial Grounds
Genealogical Resources
Kildare County Archives & Local Studies
Kildare County Archives holds the records of local government, along with some private papers and manuscript material relating to County Kildare. Kildare Local Studies holds an extensive collection of books, periodicals, maps, photographs and newspapers relating to the history and heritage of County Kildare, as well as Irish archaeology, history and heritage.
Online Resources
Archives
Grand Jury
Poor Law Unions
Kildare County Council Minutes
Naas Urban District Council Minutes
Burial Grounds
Local Studies
Kildare Observer Newspaper (1880-1935)
Journals of the County Kildare Archaeological Society (1891-2006)
Resources Available at County Archives
Find My Past
British Newspaper Archive
Resources Available in Library Branches
Irish Newspaper Archive
Radical Newspapers Archive