My Community!

Dear Readers,
As part of Challenge 4 of the blog challenge we have to write about our community and whats in it. Because I go to school in Celbridge, Co.Kildare, I will write about there.

Celbridge is a large town in North Kildare. It has a rich history envolving Castletown House and other historic places. History, you would say, is the most unique thing to Celbridge.

Castletown House itself has its own major history to the town: it is Ireland's largest and earliest Palladian stlye house, built between 1722 and 1729. It was built for William Connelly, a speaker for the Irish House of Commons and the wealthiest commoner in Ireland, at the time. It remind in the posession of his desendants till 1965 when it was purchased by a property developer. It had fallenn into disrepair but was saved by the co-founder of the Georgian scociety, Desmond Guiness. It was then soon opened to the public.
It was designed by an Italian Alessandro Galilei, but the wings were desinged later by Irishman Sir Edward Lovett Pearce. The house contains a Print Room, one of Ireland's only serviving print rooms. There are many other features to Castletown that it's well worth going to for a full tour.
In this area of Ireland we speak English so you don't have to learn a new language. But that said we can speak fast and hav what they say a very "flat" accent, for instance we don't pernounce our t's very well. But it's not to much of a problem I don't think.

Being close enough to our capital, Dublin, it is easy to just pop into the city and see the sights there also, or just go shopping!

Best time to visit is June, early July because children are still in school in June and this is when we usually get our best weather. That said though, packing a rain jacket is a must when coming to Ireland! And tempertures stay under and around 20'C which is hot for us! It can get windy aswell.

And thats Celbridge!

Thanks again,
Roisin.P.