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About Balscaddan

Balscaddan is a village in County Dublin, 30 km north of Dublin. It stands on the M1, L1085 and L1130. The map gives it 1,839 buildings and 40 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 91 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 38th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
30 km north of Dublin
Position
53.6181° N, 6.2310° W
Roads
M1, L1085, L1130, L1135 and L1616
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,839 buildings, 40 streets, 14 named places in 27 kinds
Tobertown Church
Tobertown Church·Offdaw, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Old farmhouse at Tobertown, Co. Dublin
Old farmhouse at Tobertown, Co. Dublin·Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Dublin since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

1,458,154372,77318412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 91 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M1, L1085, L1130, L1135 and L1616 running through Balscaddan.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 7 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St Benignus National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Balscaddan?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 30 km north of Dublin and 30 km from Dublin, on the M1, L1085 and L1130.
How big is Balscaddan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,839 buildings, 40 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 38th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Balscaddan?
91 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lady Well, Tobersool and Lady Well.
How do you get to Balscaddan?
2 bus and train lines call at 7 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Louth Meath Fingal.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
1,839
buildings on the model
40
named streets
14
named places
27
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata. County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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