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About Sandyford

Sandyford, Áth an Ghainimh in Irish, is a village in County Dublin, 9 km south of Dublin. It stands on the M50, N31 and R113. The map gives it 5,693 buildings and 224 named streets, with 245 places named on them in 95 kinds, and 901 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 25th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
9 km south of Dublin
Position
53.2698° N, 6.2246° W
Roads
M50, N31, R113, R117, R133, R826, L2014 and L20145
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
5,693 buildings, 224 streets, 245 named places in 95 kinds
Sandyford Village
Sandyford Village·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Macaroon Bar from Buchanan's of Greenock, Scotland
Macaroon Bar from Buchanan's of Greenock, Scotland·Courseware, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Sandyford in order

55 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 800s to 2019. That is not a history of Sandyford, 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 · 8.5 km from the centre · Memory of the World International Register
The thirteenth century
The sixteenth 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 901 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M50, N31, R113, R117, R133, R826, L2014 and L20145 running through Sandyford. 17 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 17 lines call at 133 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 Sandyford?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 9 km south of Dublin and 9 km from Dublin, on the M50, N31 and R113.
How big is Sandyford?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 5,693 buildings, 224 named streets and 245 named places, which by building count makes it the 25th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Sandyford?
901 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Fitzsimon's Wood, Fitzsimon's Wood and Explorium: National Sport and Science Centre.
How do you get to Sandyford?
17 bus and train lines call at 133 stops here in the published timetable, run by Aircoach, Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus and Dublin Coach. 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.
5,693
buildings on the model
224
named streets
245
named places
95
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. 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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