Kinsealy

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Kinsealy
Irish: Cionn Sáile
County Dublin
Farmland at Kinsealy from the air (geograph 6022330).jpg
Farmland at Kinsealy
Location
Grid reference: O196455
Location: 53°26’45"N, 6°12’3"W
Data
Population: 214  (2011)
Local Government

Kinsealy (or Kinsaley) is a village in County Dublin, in the north of the county, to the east of Swords. It is about four and a half miles from Dublin centre city, on the Malahide Road, in the former green belt between the suburbs of Balgriffin, Portmarnock and Malahide.

History

Samuel Lewis in 1837 describes the parish of Kinsealy as "well cultivated", with a limestone quarry and a holy well.[1]

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