The Curragh is a plain in County KildareIreland. The Military College, Curragh Camp is located there, where members of the Irish Army undergo training. The Camp was the location of a military detention centre where civil war prisoners and, later, members and suspected members of Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army were interned on various occasions between the 1920s and the 1950s. The plain is very flat, and is composed of a sandysoil formed after an esker desposited a sand load. County Kildare (Irish: Cill Dara) is an Irish county located to the southwest of County Dublin in the province of Leinster. ... The name Sinn Féin pronounced Shin-Feyn (in the Irish language ourselves or we ourselves; not as sometimes incorrectly translated, ourselves alone or we alone) has been applied to a series of political movements since 1905 in Ireland, each of which claim or claimed sole descent from the original party... There are several paramilitary groups which claim or have claimed the title Irish Republican Army (IRA) and advocate a unitary Irish state with no ties to the United Kingdom. ... The word internment is generally used to refer to the imprisonment or confinement of people without due process of law and a trial. ... Patterns in the sand Sand is an example of a class of materials called granular matter. ... For the heavy metal band see Soil (band) Soil is the layer of minerals and organic matter, in thickness from centimetres to a metre or more, on the land surface. ... Eskers are long, winding ridges of stratified sand and gravel which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America. ...
As the soil is sandy it has excellent drainage characteristics. This makes it a popular location for training racehorses, and the Curragh Race Track is located there. The Irish Derby Stakes are held there annually during which Iarnród Éireanntrains halt at a seasonal station near the track. Many agricultural soils need drainage to improve production or to manage water supplies. ... The Irish Derby Stakes have been held annually at The Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland since 1866. ... 1994: Iarnród Éireann Iarnród Éireann (IÉ; in English Irish Rail), is the largest passenger railway system in Ireland. ... This article is about trains in rail transport. ...
From the peculiarity of its herbage, the district is known in the neighborhood as the short grass ; and the young men of Kildare are jocularly distinguished as the boys of the short grass.
The land is the property of the crown, which appoints a special officer as the ranger of the Curragh; but the right of pasturage is possessed by the landowners of the vicinity.
1789 the Curragh was the great rendezvous for the volunteers, and in 1804 it saw the gathering of 30,000 United Irishmen.
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