East Coast & Midlands
Leinster
County Kildare

Leixlip

Leixlip is a town in north-east , Ireland. Its location on the confluence of the and the Rye Water has marked it as a frontier town historically: on the border between the ancient kingdoms of and Brega, as an outpost of The Pale, and on Kildare's border with .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of Our Lady’s Nativity and Leixlip Castle.

Church
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House
Photo: Leimanbhradain, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a house.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the north-eastern corner of , . It is one of two stations that serve the civil parish of Leixlip, the other being . Both stations lie on the Dublin to commuter route.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lucan and Celbridge.

Town
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is a suburban village to the west of , Ireland, located 12 km from Dublin city centre, on the . It is near the Strawberry Beds and Weir, and at the confluence of the River Griffeen. is situated 3 km east of Leixlip.

Town
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is a town and townland on the in , . It is 23 km west of . Both a local centre and a commuter town within the Greater Dublin Area, it is located at the intersection of the R403 and R405 regional roads. is situated 4½ km southwest of Leixlip.

Village
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is a western suburb of , . Developed on a greenfield basis since 2001, it lies within parts of the townlands of Castaheany and "Hansfield or Phibblestown", within the ancient Barony of Castleknock, County Dublin. is situated 5 km northeast of Leixlip.

Leixlip

Latitude
53.36448° or 53° 21′ 52″ north
Longitude
-6.48974° or 6° 29′ 23″ west
Population
16,700
Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IE LEX
Open location code
9C5M9G76+Q4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52242241
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2962974
Wiki­data ID
Q987797
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Leixlip” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Leixlip”
  • Basque: “Leixlip”
  • Bulgarian: “Лейкслип”
  • Bulgarian: “Лийкслип”
  • Bulgarian: “Ликслип”
  • Catalan: “Leixlip”
  • Cebuano: “Leixlip”
  • Chinese: “莱克斯利普”
  • Chinese: “萊克斯利普”
  • Danish: “Léim an Bhradáin”
  • Danish: “Leixlip”
  • Dutch: “Leixlip”
  • French: “Leixlip”
  • German: “Leixlip”
  • Hebrew: “ליקסליפ”
  • Hungarian: “Leixlip”
  • Indonesian: “Leim an Bhradain”
  • Indonesian: “Léim an Bhradáin”
  • Indonesian: “Leixlip”
  • Irish: “Léim an Bhradáin”
  • Italian: “Leixlip”
  • Japanese: “リークスリップ”
  • Lithuanian: “Leikslipas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leixlip”
  • Norwegian: “Leixlip”
  • Persian: “لیکسلیپ”
  • Polish: “Leixlip”
  • Russian: “Лейкслип”
  • Serbian: “Leixlip”
  • Serbian: “Likslip”
  • Serbian: “Ликслип”
  • Slovak: “Leixlip”
  • Spanish: “Leixlip”
  • Swedish: “Léim an Bhradáin”
  • Swedish: “Leixlip”
  • Turkish: “Leixlip”
  • Urdu: “لیکسلیپ”

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Notable Places Nearby

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Leixlip”. Photo: Magnolia677, CC BY 4.0.