Crookstown (Irish: Baile an Chrócaigh) is a village in the south of County Kildare, Ireland.

It has a few hundred inhabitants, a church, a primary school, a petrol station/rest area on the N9, restaurant and some craft shops.

[1][2][3] Irish folklorist Tomás MacCormaic has stated that the name is a corruption of Bile Mac Cruaich (the Sacred Tree of the Sons of Cruaich), an ancient name for the parish of Narraghmore, which adjoins Crookstown.

The tree was named after the two sons of Cruaich mac Duilge,[5] Macha and h-Eircc, who were part of the Dál Cormaic, a Gaelic dynasty in the locality in the 5th century.

The village is served by bus route 880 operated by Kildare Local Link on behalf of the National Transport Authority.