Clane

Clans ( 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 the first time in 520 occupied as the seat of an abbey. The village is located in north 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 traffic connections

In the 2006 Census lived in and around Clane 4968 people, which the town has developed since the 1990s, becoming a satellite town of Dublin.

From Bus Éireann clans is connected to Edenderry in the west and with the Busáras in Dublin; to the National Road N4 (Dublin - Sligo) lead two regional roads.

Clans in the literature

Clane is a scene 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 the year 1916.

Sieha also

• Bullaun of Clane