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About Sallins

Sallins, Na Solláin in Irish, is a town in County Kildare, 29 km south-west of Dublin. It stands on the M7, R407 and R445. The map gives it 3,438 buildings and 82 named streets, with 71 places named on them in 45 kinds, and 127 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 11th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Population
6,269, as the map records it
Where
29 km south-west of Dublin
Position
53.2490° N, 6.6657° W, 96 m above sea level
Area
1.47 km²
Roads
M7, R407, R445, L1102, L2002, L2004, L2006 and L2010
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
3,438 buildings, 82 streets, 71 named places in 45 kinds
Font in Sallins Church
Font in Sallins Church·Sheila1988, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Sallins Church exterior
Sallins Church exterior·Sheila1988, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

Sallins in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1350 to 1988. That is not a history of Sallins, 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 · 7.4 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
  • the 1630sJigginstown HouseHistoric houses · 4.1 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 127 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M7, R407, R445, L1102, L2002, L2004, L2006 and L2010 running through Sallins. 10 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 24 lines call at 37 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Sallins Primary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Sallins?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 29 km south-west of Dublin and 29 km from Dublin, on the M7, R407 and R445.
How big is Sallins?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,438 buildings, 82 named streets and 71 named places, which by building count makes it the 11th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Sallins?
127 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Wolfe Tone Memorial, Naas Park and Monread District Park.
How do you get to Sallins?
24 bus and train lines call at 37 stops here in the published timetable, run by Dublin Coach, Go-Ahead Ireland and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. 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.
3,438
buildings on the model
82
named streets
71
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 Q2297381). 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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