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| | County Kildare |
 | | The county is located in Leinster, part of the Great Central Plain, a region of rolling farmland on a limestone base, containing the Curragh Plain, and expanses of low lying peat land, the vast Bog of Allen. |
 | | Kildare is bounded to the southwest by the granite sprawl of the Wicklow mountains, and by counties Meath to the north, Dublin to the east, Carlow to the south and Offaly and Laois to the west and southwest respectively. |
 | | During recent times, Kildare has grown considerably in demographic terms; the population of the county increasing from 71,977 in 1971 to 122,516 in 1991. |
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