Taghadoe Round Tower and ChurchThe round tower lost its cap. It stands with a ruined church in flat farmland a few kilometres south of Maynooth, off the Straffan road.
Greenway
Royal Canal Greenway
Maynooth, County Kildare
Flat the whole way, running through Leixlip, Maynooth and Kilcock on its way west.
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- Maynooth, County Kildare
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Taghadoe Round Tower and ChurchThe round tower lost its cap. It stands with a ruined church in flat farmland a few kilometres south of Maynooth, off the Straffan road.
Maynooth CastleKeep and gatehouse of the Fitzgerald stronghold, standing at the top of Maynooth main street beside the university gates.
Castletown House and ParklandsIreland's first Palladian country house went up from 1722 at Celbridge, with parkland running down to the Liffey behind it.
Donadea Forest ParkNear Clane, forest laid out around the ruins of Donadea Castle, with a lake, a walled garden and a 9/11 memorial inside it.
The Phoenix ParkThe walled park on the edge of the city has a wild deer herd in it and long straight roads through it.
Kilmainham GaolThe old county gaol, restored by volunteers. Fourteen leaders of the 1916 Rising were executed in its yard. Tickets are booked online in advance.More in Kildare
Irish National Stud and Japanese GardensGarden · Kildare townTully is still a working thoroughbred farm, and the Japanese gardens beside it were laid out between 1906 and 1910.
St Brigid's Cathedral and Round TowerCathedral · Kildare townThe 13th century cathedral stands on the town square, and in season the round tower beside it can be climbed, by ladder, for the view out over the plain. Ask in the cathedral first.
The CurraghPark · NewbridgeTwo thousand hectares of unfenced grass between Newbridge and Kildare town, grazed by sheep and worked every morning by racehorses.
Moone High CrossMonastic site · MooneSeventeen feet of granite high cross under a roofed shelter at Moone, carved with fifty-one scriptural panels.
Castledermot Round TowerMonastic site · CastledermotThe round tower here is built onto the church itself, and the graveyard around it holds two granite high crosses and a Romanesque doorway.
Castledermot Franciscan FriaryRuin · CastledermotThe nave, the tower and the transept of this 13th century friary are all still standing, on the edge of the village.
Old Kilcullen Round TowerMonastic site · KilcullenOn the hill above Kilcullen, inside an old graveyard, the stump of a round tower and two high cross shafts.
Barrow WayWalk · AthyThe towpath follows the Barrow south from Lowtown, through Athy and on into Carlow.