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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Kildare, Kildare North, Kildare South, Old Kilcullen, St. Mary's Church, Castlemartin, Castlemartin House and Estate, Carton House, Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, Battle of Confey, Castletown House, Salesian College Celbridge, Gibbet Rath massacre, Straffan Rail Accident 1853, Battle of Kilcullen, Athy, Hamilton Institute, Harristown, Battle of Skerries, Naas, Kilkea Castle, Aula Maxima, Maynooth, Kildare County, Kildare Abbey, Scoil Mhuire, Clane, Battle of Ballymore-Eustace, Massacre of Mullaghmast, Colaiste Chiarain, Patrician Secondary School, Celbridge Abbey, Leixlip Spa, Battle of Prosperous, Hazelhatch and Celbridge railway station, Battle of Kilrush, Sallins and Naas railway station, Great Connell Priory, R449 road, Kilcock railway station, Naas Racecourse, Colaiste Lorcain, Monasterevin railway station, Naas General Hospital, Kilmead, Cupidstown Hill, Whitewater Shopping Centre, Ticknevin, Barberstown Castle, Killeen Cormac, River Rye, Mullen Bridge, Gaelcholaiste Chill Dara. Excerpt: Kildare was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dail Eireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1923 to 1937 and from 1948 to 1997. The method of election was the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV). Covering all or part of County Kildare, the constituency existed for two distinct periods: from 1923 to 1937, and from 1948 to 1997. From 1923-1937 Kildare elected 3 deputies (Teachtai Dala, commonly known in English as TDs), until its was absorbed into a new Carlow-Kildare constituency in 1937. After its re-establishment in 1948 it initially elected 3 TDs. This was increased to 4 seats in 1961, reduced again to 3 in 1969, and increased to 5 from 1981 until its abolition in 1997. Its boundaries were significantly revised on several occasions. The c...