About Kildare
Our land has been in our family for hundreds of years, it is located in Sallins, Co Kildare. Kildare is just a stone’s throw from the capital city of Dublin. Sallins is a suburban town in County Kildare, Ireland.
Sallins is positioned on both the Grand Canal and the Dublin to Cork railway line. The village is steeped in history.
Back in the day the Grand Canal and the barges on it were used as the main source of transport for transporting goods up and down the country; Guinness in barrels, Corn for Odlumns porridge oats to mention a few.
Interesting Facts About Sallins, Co. Kildare
Theobald Wolfe Tone
Lived: 20 Jun 1763 - 19 Nov 1798 (age 35)
Founded: Society of United Irishmen
Education: Trinity College Dublin · King's Inns
Buried: Bodenstown, Sallins Co Kildare.
Sallins is famous for many things, but perhaps is most famous for Theobald Wolfe Tone. Wolfe Tone is buried near Sallins village in Bodenstown graveyard.
Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone, was a leading Irish revolutionary figure and one of the founding members of the United Irishmen, and is regarded as the father of Irish republicanism and leader of the 1798 Irish Rebellion. He was captured at Buncranna on 3 November 1798, and he died sixteen days later in unclear circumstances and is buried in Bodenstown graveyard near his birth place at Sallins, Co Kildare.
Each summer, Irish Republicans of various political and paramilitary groupings congregate at Sallins to hold commemorations at Tone's grave. Bodenstown graveyard is located minutes away from our land. Our ancestors who passed the land on to us are also buried in Bodenstown Graveyard.
The Great Train Robbery
The village’s railway station, originally named just “Sallins”, opened on the 4th August 1846. The station was the location for Ireland’s largest train robbery – the so-called “Sallins Train Robbery” – which occurred on 31st March 1976. Several hundred thousand pounds were stolen from a Coras Iompair Eireann train. Several people were tried for the robbery and jailed and the case eventually was adjudged a significant miscarriage of justice.
Last of the Guinness Barges
Article from The Clare Champion
May 27 2010
There are many myths and stories about the perfect pint. Some establishments have a reputation for excellent Guinness while others are notorious for the poor quality of their pints. With the modern dispensing methods, it should be child’s play to pull a perfect pint but not so in older times, particularly back in the days of the timber barrels. Older Guinness drinkers, now long gone to the great brewery in the sky, always maintained that porter never travelled well. (That’s why they believed that pints were always better in Dublin). This argument was reinforced when Guinness started to distribute their product around the country by rail – all that shaking. Before that, the barrels of the black stuff was transported serenely by barges. It travelled the length of the canal, it was brought via the Liffey and the Grand Canal, down Lough Derg and the Shannon and on to Scariff and Limerick.
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