Cheers to Celbridge’s most famous son
CELBRIDGE was the home town of Arthur Guinness who founded the brewery bearing his name.
Born in 1725, when he was 27 he was bequeathed £100 in the will of his godfather, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel Arthur Price, and he used it to open a brewery in Leixlip, Co Kildare.
In 1759 he took out a 9,000year lease on the premises at St James’s Gate where Guinness is made to this day. In 2013, a statue of him was erected in Celbridge.