Edenderry

A town in east Offaly on the edge of the Bog of Allen, with a short spur of the Grand Canal running into the centre. In the 16th century it was known as Coolestown, after the Cooley or Cowley family who had a castle here. Quakers established a woollen industry that employed around 1,000 people by 1716, and Daniel Alesbury's factory in the town made the first car built in Ireland, the Alesbury, in 1907.

In the 16th century Edenderry was called Coolestown after the castle of the Cooley or Cowley family, which was defended in 1599 during the Nine Years' War. It passed by marriage to the Blundell family and was sacked by the army of James II in 1691. The Blundell sisters had opposed a branch of the Grand Canal to the town, but the Marquess of Downshire, who later held their land, paid the £692 cost and the branch was finished in 1802. By 1716 a woollen industry first set up by Quakers employed around 1,000 people. The town hall was completed in 1830, Daniel Alesbury's woodwork factory built Ireland's first car in 1907, and by 1911 the town had 2,204 people.

Drawn from the History section of the Wikipedia article on Edenderry ↗, rewritten here and adding nothing it does not say; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Grange Castle · castle · 4 km
• Carbury Castle, County Kildare · castle · 6 km
• Rattin Castle · castle · 14 km

Straight-line distances from the town centre, from each site's documented coordinates.

• Hill of Allen — Fionn's fort · Almu, the white fortress of Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna. A 19th-century folly now crowns the hill; the quarry has eaten half of it.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.