page_title: Kilcullen
section_title: Community and amenities
hierarchical_section_title: Kilcullen / Community and amenities
caption_attribution_description: English: Postcard of scenes from Kilcullen (aka Kilcullen Bridge), Co. Kildare, Ireland, incl. part of the Valley Community Park, and St. Brigid's Holy Well there, "New" Harristown Bridge, parts of Main St., 18th and 19th century maps, the Dun Ailinne interpretative board, an early sketch and floorplan of St. Mary's Church, Castlemartin, and a small photo of Castlemartin House in the early 1900's, etc.
context_page_description: Kilcullen, formally Kilcullen Bridge, is a small town on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Ireland. Its population of 3,473 2011 Census makes it the 12th largest settlement in County Kildare and the fastest growing in the county, having doubled in population from 1,483 in the census of 2002. It is situated primarily in the Barony of Kilcullen (in the Civil Parish of Kilcullen), with part in the Barony of Naas South (Civil Parish of Carnalway), and subsidiary areas include Logstown, Harristown, Carnalway and Brannockstown, Gilltown, Nicholastown, and Castlemartin.
  Kilcullen Bridge replaced the original settlement of Kilcullen, now Old Kilcullen, in the centuries following the building of the great bridge at the future site of the town. Other local historical features include Dun Ailinne, New Abbey and Castlemartin, for many years the home of media magnate Tony O'Reilly and his wife, horse-breeding shipping heiress Chryss Goulandris, and now owned by US billionaire John Malone. In the town's hinterland are a number of stud farms.
context_section_description: A major feature of the town is the narrow but extensive Valley Community Park, which runs along the River Liffey, and related walks, one of which goes all the way to New Abbey.  The Valley includes the restored historic main water source for the town, the Spout, and the Holy Well of St. Brigid, ornamented with a sculpture of "St. Brigid feeding the poor", by Fr Henry Flanagan, OP.
  There is also the small Riverside Walk behind the Town Hall.
  Kilcullen Library, a branch of Kildare County Libraries on New Abbey Road, provides service to the greater Kilcullen area.  Located in the former boys schoolhouse, built 1925 and operating until 1980, it holds adult, reference and junior sections, some local history information, and a public access internet PC.
caption: Kilcullen images, inc. the Valley Community Park and St. Brigid's Holy Well there, parts of Main Street, historical maps, the Dun Ailinne interpretative board, an early sketch and floorplan of St. Mary's Church, Castlemartin
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