Presentation on south Kildare Celtic origins

Archaeologists working on M9 excavations.

A meeting of a heritage group formed in south Kildare last August will feature a presentation on the area's Celtic origins, writes Brian Byrne.

Organised by the South Kildare Villages History and Heritage Group, it will be held in O'Brien's of Timolin next Monday. The presentation will be by Colm O'Flynn and starts at 7.30pm.

The Group's inaugural meeting in August heard a presentation by historian Mario Corrigan on the Kildare people who died in the sinking of the RMS Leinster.

A meeting before Christmas in the old Quaker Meeting House in Ballitore was treated to a presentation by Noel Dunne, a Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) archaeologist with Kildare County Council, on discoveries, made in 2007 along the route of the M9 in Kildare.

One of the group's founders, Sean Cleary, says the aim of the organisation is to put 'pride of place' back into the forgotten rural villages of the area.

The group is centred around Crookstown, Ballitore, Timolin, Moone, Belan, Fontstown, Killelan, Narraghmore, Nurney and Calverstown.

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