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Kildangan
Sign in to saveKildangan (; ) is a village in County Kildare, Ireland. It is also a townland and civil parish.
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Kildangan (; ) is a village in County Kildare, Ireland. It is also a townland and civil parish.
==History== During the Anglo-Norman settlement of Ireland, Maurice Fitzgerald of Allen built a castle there as part of a defensive line along the River Barrow from Carlow to Lea Castle near Portarlington. Near the castle a church was built which gave the locality its name. The original castle and church were located within what are now the grounds of Kildangan Stud. The castle was dynamited in 1882 and the stone reused to build the existing Victorian Jacobean style house to the design of William Hopkins.
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