Clans

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Clane Abbey, 2007

Clane ( Irish : Claonadh , dt. "Inclination") is a town in County Kildare in the east of the Republic of Ireland .

The place

The existence of clans is first documented in 520 as the seat of an abbey. The place is in the north of County Kildare on the banks of the Liffey , in the middle between Maynooth and Naas and 32 km west of the capital Dublin .

Demographics and transport links

At the 2016 Census , there were 7,280 people in clans, although the place has increasingly developed into a satellite city of Dublin since the 1990s and the number of clans has quadrupled between 1991 and 2016.

Of bus Éireann clans is with Edenderry to the west and to the Busáras connected in Dublin; two regional roads lead to the national road N4 (Dublin– Sligo ).

Clans in Literature

Clane is a setting in the early life of Stephen Dedalus in the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce from 1916.

Personalities

  • Charles Handy (* 1932), economic and social philosopher and author

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map of Ireland (can be enlarged greatly)
  2. ^ Clane Town, County Kildare
  3. ↑ Clane (Town) on citypopulation.de, accessed on November 17, 2017

Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′  N , 6 ° 41 ′  W