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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
In 1868, the parish of Naas contained the following places:"NAAS, a parish, market and post town, in the barony of North Naas, county Kildare, province of Leinster, 19 miles S.W. of Dublin, Ireland. The parish is 3½ miles long by 2½ broad. The surface is flat, and the soil good. The Liffey touches it on the W., and the interior is intersected by the road from Dublin to Waterford, and by a branch of the Grand canal. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Kildare, value £323. The church is very old, and was enlarged in 1822. There are Independent and Roman Catholic chapels; also a convent, National and other day schools, belong to the parish. The town stands on a branch of the Grand canal, and on the road from Dublin to Carlow. It consists of one main street, and contains a court-house, gaol, military and police barracks, a dispensary, and union poorhouse. In the vicinity are numerous seats surrounded by plantations. Its trade has much declined of late years. Naas was formerly a place of importance and a parliamentary borough. It was in very early times the seat of the kings of Leinster, and numerous interesting relics of its former consequence are still to be traced. Quarter sessions are held in the town. Mondays and Thursdays are market days. Fairs are held on 15th January, 16th February, 17th March, 15th April, Holy Thursday, Whit-Monday, 19th June, 11th July, 10th August, 10th September, 20th October, 22nd November, and 14th December."
"OSBERSTOWN, a parish, in the barony of NORTH-NAAS, county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 1 mile (N.) from Naas; containing, with part of the village of Sallins, 518 inhabitants. "
"SALLINS, a post-office village in the parishes of Naas and Bodenstown, barony of North Naas, county Kildare, province of Leinster, Ireland, 2 miles N. of Naas. It is a station on the Great Southern and Western railway. It is situated on the Grand canal, and contains a police station. Sallins Lodge is the principal residence."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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