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About Allen

Allen, Alúine in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 41 km west of Dublin. It stands on the L3002 and L7087. The map gives it 428 buildings and 6 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 92 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 43th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
41 km west of Dublin
Position
53.2397° N, 6.8564° W
Roads
L3002 and L7087
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
428 buildings, 6 streets, 9 named places in 23 kinds
Landscape view of the Hill of Allen, County Kildare
Landscape view of the Hill of Allen, County Kildare·Paul demo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Newbridge County Kildare (Ireland) (8315586277)
Newbridge County Kildare (Ireland) (8315586277)·William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Kildare 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.

247,77457,892114,48818412022

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 92 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L3002 and L7087 running through Allen. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Allen National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Allen?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 41 km west of Dublin and 41 km from Dublin, on the L3002 and L7087.
How big is Allen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 428 buildings, 6 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 43th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Allen?
92 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Altar, Hill of Allen and Aylmer’s Folly.
How do you get to Allen?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Go-Ahead Ireland and TFI Local Link Kildare South Dublin.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
428
buildings on the model
6
named streets
9
named places
23
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 Q3775817). 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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