Celbridge

Celbridge Cill Droichid
Town
The Mill, Celbridge
Celbridge Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°20′17″N 6°32′20″W / 53.338°N 6.53880°W / 53.338; -6.53880Coordinates: 53°20′17″N 6°32′20″W / 53.338°N 6.53880°W / 53.338; -6.53880
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	County Kildare
Elevation	55 m (180 ft)
Population (2016)
• Urban	21,857
Irish Grid Reference	N971330
Website	celbridge.ie

Celbridge (from Irish: Cill Droichid, meaning "church bridge") is a town and townland on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Ireland. It is 23 km (14 mi) west of Dublin. As a town within the Dublin Metropolitan Area and the Greater Dublin Area, it is located at the intersection of the R403 and R405 regional roads.

In recent years Celbridge has expanded dramatically to be the largest town in Kildare, yet most of the towns services and amenities still centre on the single main street.

The name Celbridge (pronounced sell-bridge) is derived from the Irish Cill Droichid (pronounced kill-drihid) meaning "Church bridge" or "Church by the bridge". The Irish name was historically anglicised as Kildroicht, Kildrought, Kildroght and Kildrout.

Celbridge is the largest town in County Kildare, The population increased by 7.8% between 2002 and 2006. Historically this was the town's most rapid growth rate in absolute terms (3,011 in four years). In percentage terms it was a slowdown on previous growth rates which were at one stage the highest in Ireland. As of the census of 2011, there were 19,537 people living in Celbridge. Of the 2006 population of 17,262. 8,732 were male and 8,530 female, 4,307 (25pc) were aged 0–14, 2,678 (15.5pc) were aged 15–24, 6,219 (35pc) were aged 35–44, 3,400 (19.7pc) were aged 45–64 and 658 (3.6pc) were aged 65 years and over. Of these 9,586 were single, 6,602 were married, 715 were widowed and 359 were separated. Only 4,146 (24.4pc) of the 16,980 who were recorded by the census as "usually resident in Celbridge" had been born in County Kildare. 10,071 (59.3pc) had been born elsewhere in Ireland and 2,763 (16.3pc) were born outside Ireland.

Celbridge is located within the Kildare North constituency which elects 4 TDs to the Dáil.