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Bond Bridge

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The town has, at either end of the main street, Maynooth Castle and Carton House: two former seats of the Dukes of Leinster. The castle was a stronghold of the 16th century historical figure Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare better known as Silken Thomas. The castle was overrun in 1535, after the rebellion of the Earl. The town is just inside the western edge of The Pale. The most important historical buildings in the town are those of St. Patrick's College and some of which antedate the foundation of the college, while others are in the late Georgian and neo-Gothic revival style. The "new range" of buildings was erected by A.W.N. Pugin in 1850 under a commission from then college president Laurence F. Renehan, while the highly important College Chapel was designed and completed by J.J. McCarthy during the presidency of Dr. Robert Browne in 1894. In the 1920s, the town was the unofficial home to the King of England's representative in Ireland, Domhnall Ua Buachalla, who declined to take up official residence in the Viceregal Lodge in the Phoenix Park, and whose family operated a hardware store in the town until 2005, the only store with an Irish language name in the town for many years. The famed Conolly's Folly is also near the town, although it is arguably in Celbridge, as it is much closer to it, but is covered by Maynooth's very large town boundaries. It was known to be the gateway to the west as the main route from Dublin .
The town has, at either end of the main street, Maynooth Castle and Carton House: two former seats of the Dukes of Leinster. The castle was a stronghold of the 16th century historical figure Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare better known as Silken Thomas. The castle was overrun in 1535, after the rebellion of the Earl. The town is just inside the western edge of The Pale. The most important historical buildings in the town are those of St. Patrick's College and some of which antedate the foundation of the college, while others are in the late Georgian and neo-Gothic revival style. The "new range" of buildings was erected by A.W.N. Pugin in 1850 under a commission from then college president Laurence F. Renehan, while the highly important College Chapel was designed and completed by J.J. McCarthy during the presidency of Dr. Robert Browne in 1894. In the 1920s, the town was the unofficial home to the King of England's representative in Ireland, Domhnall Ua Buachalla, who declined to take up official residence in the Viceregal Lodge in the Phoenix Park, and whose family operated a hardware store in the town until 2005, the only store with an Irish language name in the town for many years. The famed Conolly's Folly is also near the town, although it is arguably in Celbridge, as it is much closer to it, but is covered by Maynooth's very large town boundaries. It was known to be the gateway to the west as the main route from Dublin . · Photo: William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Towpath on north bank of the Royal Canal at Maynooth View looking west. Towpath on north bank.
Towpath on north bank of the Royal Canal at Maynooth View looking west. Towpath on north bank. · Photo: Roger Butler · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Perhaps two neighbours met on Bond Bridge between Collegeland and Greenfield, each certain the other was the one meant to stop and talk. A boat passing along the Royal Canal gave them time to settle it, and both went home late with the same story.

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Single-arch rubble stone hump back road bridge over canal, dated 1795, with ashlar voussoirs, cut-stone date stones/plaques and cut-stone coping. Irregular coursed squared rubble stone walls. Cut-stone date stones/plaques. Cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Single elliptical arch with ashlar voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with remains of lime render over. Sited spanning Royal Canal with tow path running underneath to north.
Bond Bridge is a fine rubble stone bridge that forms an imposing feature on the Royal Canal and is one of a group of bridges on the section of that canal that passes through County Kildare. The construction of the arch that has retained its original shape is of technical and engineering merit. The bridge exhibits good quality stone masonry and fine, crisp joints. The bridge is of considerable historical and social significance as a reminder of the canal network development in Ireland, which brought about many technical advances and developed commercial activity in Maynooth in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries.

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Bond Bridge is a fine rubble stone bridge that forms an imposing feature on the Royal Canal and is one of a group of bridges on the section of that canal that passes through County Kildare.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11803133

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; AugusteBlanqui, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Darkone ( talk · contribs ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5; William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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