Kildare is at home to the Irish National Stud and the Japanese Gardens. Good deal of the circumferent countryside within County Kildare is used for horse breeding. The Curragh racecourse is not far Kildare town.

A town has serious rail links non merely to Dublin however as well in the south (Waterford), the south-west (Cork, Limerick, and Tralee), and west of the united states (Galway and Mayo). Kildare lies more or less a M7 motorway from Dublin to Limerick, which leads to the N8 Dublin - Cork route.

Inside pre-Christian days Kildare was the places of a shrine to the Celtic goddess Brigid. Charted a introduction of Christianity in the 5th and 6th centuries it became the foundation of the Christian Saint Brigid who founded a unique monastery of monks & nuns on the places of the present cathedral.