Saleen, County Cork

Saleen
Sáilín
Village
Saleen Creek opens to Cork Harbour and is southwest of Saleen village
Saleen Creek opens to Cork Harbour and is southwest of Saleen village
Saleen is located in Ireland
Saleen
Saleen
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 51°51′49″N 8°09′49″W / 51.8636°N 8.1637°W / 51.8636; -8.1637
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCork
Population
 (2016)[1]
445
Irish Grid ReferenceW887679

Saleen (Irish: Sáilín)[2] is a small village and census town in County Cork, Ireland.[3] It is located in the civil parish of Garranekinnefeake,[2] in the Cork County Council municipal district of East Cork.[4] Saleen lies on the R630 regional road between Midleton and Whitegate.[4]

Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a megalithic portal tomb in Saleen Creek near Rostellan,[5][6] and ringfort sites in the neighbouring townlands of Scartlea Lower and Jamesbrook.[7] The local church, the Church of the Mother of God, is in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne and is dated to c. 1801.[8][9] It is listed on Cork County Council's Record of Protected Structures.[10]

At the start of the 2020 school year, Saleen's national (primary) school had an enrollment of over 450 pupils.[11] The village had a population of 445 as of the 2016 census,[1] up from 374 as of the 2011 census.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Saleen". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Sáilín / Saleen". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Saleen (Ireland) Census Town". City Population. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  4. ^ a b "East Cork Municipal District - Local Area Plan" (PDF). corklocalareaplans.com. Cork County Council. 21 August 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Rostellan Dolmen". ringofcork.ie. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Rostellan Portal Tomb". irishstones.org. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  7. ^ Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork. Dublin: Govt. Stationery Office. 1994.
  8. ^ Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East And South Cork. Dublin: Govt. Stationery Office. 1994. Church [..] Scartlea Lower [..] In Saleens. T-shaped; Nave orientated N-S; ponted windows. Interior modernized. Date stone 1801
  9. ^ "Parish: Aghada". cloynediocese.ie. Diocese of Cloyne. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Draft Cork County Development Plan - Volume Two - Heritage and Amenity" (PDF). Cork County Council. 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Scartleigh NS, Saleen, Cloyne, Co. Cork (17600S)". education.ie. Department of Education. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021.