Editing Swords, Dublin (section)

=== Urban layout ===
[[File:Modern architecture, North Street, Swords.jpg|thumb|A [[Credit union|Credit Union]] on North Street|left]]
[[File:St. Columcille's Court, Swords.jpg|thumb|St. Columcille's Court, Swords]]
The main retail area is located in the centre of the town and includes the town's wide, tree-lined [[Main Street]], and the [[Swords Pavilions|Pavilions]] and Swords Central combined shopping centres. There are also two smaller retail developments, Swords Plaza and Swords Town Mall. Most civic facilities are also in this central area, with some subsidiary shopping and civic centres in surrounding housing areas.

The west of the urban area is mainly residential, with the neighbourhoods of [[Applewood, Swords|Applewood]], [[Rathbeale]] and [[Brackenstown]] to the north of the Ward River and [[Knocksedan]], River Valley, Rathingle, Highfields, and Boroimhe to the south side of the river.

The main business and industrial areas are located to the east of the town centre, along the [[R132 road (Ireland)|R132]] dual carriageway. These include Balheary Industrial Park, Swords Business Campus, Swords Business Park, and the Airside campus (Business Park, Retail Park and Motor Park). These campuses separate the town centre from the residential neighbourhoods further east — Seatown, Lissenhall, Holywell and Drynam (or Drinan) — for which reason the [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|Central Statistics Office]] treats the latter areas as forming a separate [[Census town (Ireland)|census town]], which since 1991 it has dubbed [[Kinsealy–Drinan]]<ref name="census1991">{{cite book |title=Census of Ireland 1991 |chapter-url=https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/census1991results/volume1/C1991_V1_T11.pdf#page=4 |volume=1 |page=43 |chapter=Table 11: Population of Towns ordered by size |date=June 1993 |publisher=CSO |access-date=10 July 2023 |archive-date=10 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230710162651/https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/census1991results/volume1/C1991_V1_T11.pdf#page=4 |url-status=live }}</ref> and had a population of 7,526 at the [[2022 census of Ireland|2022 census]].<ref name=cso2022-kd>{{cite web | url = https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/ima/cop/2022&boundary=C04160V04929&guid=6ca2f1a4-ad9b-4507-bc97-01044db6329a | title = Interactive Data Visualisations: Towns: Kinsealy-Drinan | work = Census 2022 | publisher = [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|Central Statistics Office]] | access-date = 26 September 2023 | archive-date = 26 September 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230926114241/https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/ima/cop/2022&boundary=C04160V04929&guid=6ca2f1a4-ad9b-4507-bc97-01044db6329a | url-status = live }}</ref> The [[development plan]] for Fingal County Council treats Kinsealy–Drinan as part of Swords.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fingal Development Plan 2023–2029 : Chief Executive's Report on Draft Plan Public Consultation |url=https://www.fingal.ie/sites/default/files/2022-08/CE%20Report%20on%20Draft%20Plan%20Public%20Consultations%20July%202022.pdf |publisher=Fingal County Council |access-date=10 July 2023 |pages=32, 551 |date=28 July 2022 |archive-date=2 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702160847/https://www.fingal.ie/sites/default/files/2022-08/CE%20Report%20on%20Draft%20Plan%20Public%20Consultations%20July%202022.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>