Editing Celbridge (section)

===Other industry===
[[John Wynn Baker]] (c. 1730 – 1775), agricultural improver and writer, established the first factory in Ireland in 1765 with the financial assistance of the Dublin Society on a {{convert|354|acre|km2|adj=on}} property at Elm Hall on the Loughlinstown Road near the newly constructed [[Grand Canal (Ireland)|Grand Canal]] at [[Hazlehatch]] for manufacturing agricultural implements.	

One of Celbridge's most original industries was the Callender Paper Company established in Celbridge in 1903 to make paper from [[peat]]. Despite the report in the [[Irish Times]] of 25 June 1904 that facilities of the company were "totally inadequate to cope with demand" and that "Celbridge peat paper is finding its way into almost every village and hamlet in Ireland" the enterprise had already run into financial trouble by November 1904.	
		
In 1977 French electrical group [[Telemecanigue]] invested £6m in establishing a factory on the Maynooth Road, employing 500 people at peak. [[Schneider MGTE]] group closed the factory in September 2003.