Sport and Amenities
- Kildangan has one primary education level school, Kildangan National School. This was extended in 2008 and 2012 in order to cater for the increase in population.
- Kildangan hall, built in 1940, renovated 1986 has long been in use for dancing, concerts and other forms of recreation.
- Gaelic football is the main sporting activity particularly during the summer months, through Kildangan GAA.
- Kildangan was the birthplace of Paddy Flanagan, one of the foremost competitive cyclists of the 1960s and 1970s. Flanagan won the Rás Tailtean three times: 1960, 1964 and 1975.
- After the second world war Kildangan Stud was the home of a very successful cricket club.
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