placenamesKildrought
Cill Droichid
Lewis distinguished a large woollen concern from a neighbouring cotton factory across the parish boundary.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Droichid · Irish · main form
- Kildrought · English · main form
Place & story
Capacity and inactivity in 1837
Celbridge’s woollen works occupied a large range of buildings erected in 1805, according to Samuel Lewis’s account of the town and Kildrought parish. They had employed six hundred people when fully operating, but were not working when he wrote in 1837. A separate cotton-spinning and power-loom factory adjoined the town in Donaghcumper parish, with about one hundred workers when fully active. The two figures describe different establishments and their full operation, rather than seven hundred people necessarily working together in 1837. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Salt North
- Coordinates
- 53.34495, -6.54530
- Mapped area
- 7.51 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1188 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kildrought. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Celbridge or Kildrought: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.