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About Clonsilla

Clonsilla is a village in County Dublin, 11 km west of Dublin. It stands on the R121, L3015 and L3016. The map gives it 8,474 buildings and 210 named streets, with 76 places named on them in 45 kinds, and 650 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
11 km west of Dublin
Position
53.3833° N, 6.4167° W, 56 m above sea level
Roads
R121, L3015, L3016, L3017, L3018, L3032, L3036 and L3040
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
8,474 buildings, 210 streets, 76 named places in 45 kinds
Baron Clanmoris tombstones Clonsilla
Baron Clanmoris tombstones Clonsilla·Laurel Lodged, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Deep Sinking Arches carrying Towpath East of Dr. Troy Bridge
Deep Sinking Arches carrying Towpath East of Dr. Troy Bridge·Johnpaul1945, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

Clonsilla in order

42 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 800s to 2019. That is not a history of Clonsilla, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the 800s2019Book of KellsMuseum of Literature Ireland
The eighth century
  • the 800sBook of KellsAttractions · 12 km from the centre · Memory of the World International Register
The thirteenth century
The fifteenth century
The seventeenth century
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

County Dublin since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

1,458,154372,77318412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 650 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R121, L3015, L3016, L3017, L3018, L3032, L3036 and L3040 running through Clonsilla.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 12 lines call at 85 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Clonsilla?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 11 km west of Dublin and 11 km from Dublin, on the R121, L3015 and L3016.
How big is Clonsilla?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 8,474 buildings, 210 named streets and 76 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Clonsilla?
650 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Beech Park, The Shackleton Garden and Millenium Play Ground.
How do you get to Clonsilla?
12 bus and train lines call at 85 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Go-Ahead Ireland and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
8,474
buildings on the model
210
named streets
76
named places
45
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q2081718). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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