Kinsealy

Farmland at Kinsealy from the air

Kinsealy (officially Kinsaley; Irish: Cionn Sáile[1]) is an outer suburb of Dublin in Fingal, Ireland. Kinsealy is on the northside of the city, about 13 km from the city centre,[2] on the Malahide Road, in the former green belt between the suburbs of Balgriffin, Portmarnock and Malahide.

Kinsaley is also the name of the surrounding electoral division[1] and of a civil parish in the ancient barony of Coolock within the traditional County Dublin.[1] The urban area of Kinsealy crosses into the electoral division of Balgriffin.

Kinsealy gives its name to Kinsealy–Drinan, an urban area outside Swords, Dublin, treated by the Fingal County Council development plan as part of Swords.[3]

  1. ^ a b c "Kinsaley". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Dublin-Connolly/Kinsaley-Drinan". Rome2Rio. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Fingal Development Plan 2023–2029 : Chief Executive's Report on Draft Plan Public Consultation" (PDF). Fingal County Council. 28 July 2022. pp. 32, 551. Retrieved 10 July 2023.