Editing Celbridge (section)

===Celbridge Main Street===
The development of the Main Street commenced with the building of [[Kildrought House]] by Joseph Rotheny in 1720 for Robert Baillie, a Dublin upholsterer who was William Conolly's greatest prospect as an improving tenant. A large extension, which included a malt house, was added after Baillie sold in 1749. Kildrought house became home to John Begnall's Academy after 1782. Among the attendees were the sons of [[George Napier|Col George Napier]], [[George Thomas Napier|George]], [[Charles James Napier|Charles]], [[William Francis Patrick Napier|William]] and [[Henry Edward Napier|Henry]], later to be collectively known as "[[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Wellington]]'s Colonels, " and their younger brother [[Richard Napier]], and [[John Jebb (bishop)|John Jebb]] (1775–1833), later [[Church of Ireland]] bishop of [[Bishop of Limerick (Church of Ireland)|Limerick]], [[Bishop of Ardfert (Church of Ireland)|Ardfert]], and [[Bishop of Aghadoe (Church of Ireland)|Aghadoe]]. Jeremiah Haughton, owner of the Mill lived there after 1818. For a time in the early 19th century, Kildrought House had a cholera hospital attached to it and served as the local police barracks from 1831 to 1841 when the barrack moved to the site of the current Michaelangelo's restaurant. After 1861 it was leased by Richard Maunsell of Oakley Park. Next door is the courthouse where the local petty sessions took place every fourth week.<ref>A History of Celbridge by Tony Doohan (Celbridge Community Council 1984)</ref> It later became home of [[Lloyd Christian]], athletics pioneer and colleague of [[Michael Cusack (Gaelic Athletic Association)|Michael Cusack]] in the [[hurling]] revival of the 1880s.
	
[[File:Celbridgemainstreet.jpg|280px|thumb|right|Celbridge Main Street]]	
No. 22 Main Street, the original home of Conolly's second agent George Finey was occupied by [[Richard Guinness]] for a time and his sons [[Arthur Guinness|Arthur]], founder of the Guinness brewery, and Samuel. Richard [https://archive.org/details/op1253263-1001/page/n163 married Elizabeth Clare],<ref>Deputy Keeper of Public Records in Ireland : twenty-sixth report with appendix, HMSO, London, 1894, p163</ref> proprietor of the White Hart Inn, a public house at the site of the current Londis supermarket. Finey's successor as Conolly's agent, Dublin cabinetmaker Charles Davis, built Jessamine Lodge, an impressive fivebay house with a weather vane on the junction of Main Street and the Maynooth Road (1750). It was home to seven generations of Mulligans until 1992. One of the Mulligans had the decorative iron arch to the entrance gate constructed from material salvaged from the GPO Dublin after the 1916 Rising. The Castletown Inn stands where Isaac Annesley, the early 18th-century master stonemason, lived. One of the oldest houses in the town. No 59 next door, was renovated in the latter half of the 18th century for Thomas Conolly's huntsman. Christopher Barry's Auctioneers was built in 1840 by Richard Nelson and let to Chief Constable Marley, it replaced an old dwellinghouse with stables and offices where William Wadsworth, the original Irish Straw Manufacturer and exporter lived and operated at the end of the 19th century. On the corner of the Main Street and Liffey Bridge, Broe's house and shop (1773) is now the Bank of Ireland. Matthew Gogarty came from Clondalkin in 1818 and established his shop on the other side of the street. James Carberry's Brewery (1709) later became Coyles and eventually Norris's and the Village Inn. Roseville was built in 1796.
	
Other notable buildings on Main Street include the Catholic Church (1857 [[Joseph Connolly (architect)|JJ McCarthy]] Architect), the Holy Faith convent (1877) and Christ Church (Church of Ireland, 1884) which retains the tower of an earlier church (1813). Castletown gates at the end of the street were built in 1783 after a design inspired by [[Batty Langley]]. According to research by local historian Lena Boylan, the work was by a stonemason named Coates and a blacksmith named Behan.