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About Leixlip

Leixlip, Léim an Bhradáin in Irish, is a town in County Kildare, 15 km west of Dublin, with 15,504 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the R148, R149 and R403. The map gives it 8,040 buildings and 183 named streets, with 242 places named on them in 87 kinds, and 290 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Population
15,504 at the 2016 census
Where
15 km west of Dublin
Position
53.3645° N, 6.4897° W, 46 m above sea level
Roads
R148, R149, R403, R404, R835, L1014, L1015 and L2010
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Bressuire, France and Niles, United States
On the model
8,040 buildings, 183 streets, 242 named places in 87 kinds
The Boathouse (136260565)
The Boathouse (136260565)·Andrew Mcmillan, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View of the Hydroelectricity Dam, Leixlip, taken from the lake.
View of the Hydroelectricity Dam, Leixlip, taken from the lake.·Leimanbhradain, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Leixlip 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 Leixlip, 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 · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
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 290 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R148, R149, R403, R404, R835, L1014, L1015 and L2010 running through Leixlip. 24 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 37 lines call at 174 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 Leixlip?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 15 km west of Dublin and 15 km from Dublin, on the R148, R149 and R403.
How big is Leixlip?
15,504 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 8,040 buildings and 183 named streets.
What is there to see in Leixlip?
290 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Leixlip Monument, Leixlip Village and Guinness' Brewery.
How do you get to Leixlip?
37 bus and train lines call at 174 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Citylink. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
8,040
buildings on the model
183
named streets
242
named places
87
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 Q987797). 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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