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County Kildare · Leinster

About Clane

Clane, Claonadh in Irish, is a town in County Kildare, 29 km west of Dublin, with 7,280 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the L5078-1, L5078-2 and R403. The map gives it 4,254 buildings and 116 named streets, with 231 places named on them in 101 kinds, and 166 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Population
7,280 at the 2016 census
Where
29 km west of Dublin
Position
53.2912° N, 6.6861° W, 70 m above sea level
Area
5.82 km²
Roads
L5078-1, L5078-2, R403, R407, L1023, L1025 and L2004
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
4,254 buildings, 116 streets, 231 named places in 101 kinds
Marine One Flying Over Irish Fields
Marine One Flying Over Irish Fields·Pete Souza (Executive Office of the President of the United States), public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Millicent Church (St. Michael and All Angels)
Millicent Church (St. Michael and All Angels)·Robin Pollard, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Clane in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1350 to 1988. That is not a history of Clane, 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.

13501988Oughterard ChurchThe Steam Musem
The fourteenth century
  • 1350Oughterard ChurchHistoric churches · 8.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
  • the 1630sJigginstown HouseHistoric houses · 8.6 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

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 166 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L5078-1, L5078-2, R403, R407, L1023, L1025 and L2004 running through Clane. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

10 lines call at 22 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

5 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Clane?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 29 km west of Dublin and 29 km from Dublin, on the L5078-1, L5078-2 and R403.
How big is Clane?
7,280 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 4,254 buildings and 116 named streets.
What is there to see in Clane?
166 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Clane Information, Fr. John Sullivan and Venerable Fr John Sullivan Memorial.
How do you get to Clane?
10 bus and train lines call at 22 stops here in the published timetable, run by Go-Ahead Ireland and JJ Kavanagh.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
4,254
buildings on the model
116
named streets
231
named places
101
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 Q632020). 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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