This section needs additional citations for verification. Dublin Airport is 20 minutes away from Leixlip via the M50 motorway. Its traffic is primarily private and commercial training. Weston Airport is a publicly licensed airport. Leixlip has the distinction of being the only town in the Republic of Ireland with two operational train stations. Some of these services continue outbound to Mullingar and Longford. While InterCity services to Sligo do not serve the town, the Maynooth/ Longford Commuter services do, the frequency of the trains peaking in the mornings and evenings. Leixlip is connected to the Irish railway network on the Dublin-Sligo railway line, running from Dublin Connolly to Sligo, with two stations, Leixlip (Louisa Bridge), opened on 1 September 1848, and Leixlip (Confey), opened on 2 July 1990, located at either end of the town. JJ Kavanagh provide the regional 139 service, which links Leixlip with Naas and Blanchardstown. Dublin Bus also provide the local L54, L58 and L59 bus services, which link Leixlip's housing estates together and also provide links to Celbridge and Clondalkin. Additionally, Leixlip is served at peak time by the X25, X31 and X32. Dublin Bus run the spinal city bound C3 service, along with the non spinal city bound 52. The Local Government Reform Act 2014 abolished town councils, including Leixlip's, in 2014.ĭublin Bus, and JJ Kavanagh and Sons, provide bus service. In 1990, the town's coat of arms was presented by minister Pádraig Flynn. īetween 19 Leixlip had a nine-member Town Council (formerly Leixlip Town Commissioners), headed by a Cathaoirleach (chairperson). Two of those members are based in Leixlip. Leixlip, with Celbridge, comprises the Celbridge-Leixlip electoral area, which elects seven members to Kildare County Council. Leixlip is part of the Kildare North constituency, which elects four members to Dáil Éireann. The first history of the town was published in 2005. The town was home to Arthur Guinness's first brewery in 1756, where he brewed ales until he moved on to St. Its status as an outpost of Dublin continued for centuries, marking a border of The Pale. The first settlement at Leixlip was an outpost of Early Scandinavian Dublin, built at the furthest point where longships could be rowed up the Liffey. Leixlip was a possible site of the Battle of Confey, in which the Viking King Sigtrygg Caech of Dublin defeated the Irish King of Leinster around the year 917. In Latin, it is Saltus salmonis, from which comes the names of the baronies of North Salt and South Salt. The name in the Irish language ( Léim an Bhradáin) is a direct translation of this, and was first adopted in the 1890s. The placename comes from the Old Norse lax hlaup ( Younger Futhark: ᛚᛅᚼᛋ ᚼᛚᛅᚢᛒ pronounced ) which means " salmon leap". It is the fifth largest town in Kildare, and the 30th largest in Ireland. Leixlip was also a civil parish in the ancient barony of Salt North.Īs of 2022, the population of the town was 16,773. Its location on the confluence of the River Liffey and the Rye Water has marked it as a frontier town historically: on the border between the ancient kingdoms of Leinster and Brega, as an outpost of The Pale, and on Kildare's border with County Dublin. Leixlip ( / ˈ l iː k s l ɪ p/ or / ˈ l iː s l ɪ p/ Irish: Léim an Bhradáin, ) is a town in north-east County Kildare, Ireland.
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