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About Blanchardstown

Blanchardstown, Baile Bhlainséir in Irish, is a town in County Dublin, 9 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the M50, N3 and R102. The map gives it 14,296 buildings and 361 named streets, with 335 places named on them in 109 kinds, and 720 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Population
68,156, as the map records it
Where
9 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.3845° N, 6.3829° W, 56 m above sea level
Roads
M50, N3, R102, R121, R147, R806, R843 and L3020
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
14,296 buildings, 361 streets, 335 named places in 109 kinds
Garda station located on Main Street, Blanchardstown. April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Garda station located on Main Street, Blanchardstown. April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.·Laurel Lodged, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Blanchardstown crossroads 2020
Blanchardstown crossroads 2020·Laurel Lodged, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Blanchardstown in order

52 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 800s to 2019. That is not a history of Blanchardstown, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the 800s2019Book of KellsMuseum of Literature Ireland
The eighth century
  • the 800sBook of KellsAttractions · 9.5 km from the centre · Memory of the World International Register
The thirteenth century
The fifteenth century
The sixteenth century
The seventeenth century
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

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 720 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M50, N3, R102, R121, R147, R806, R843 and L3020 running through Blanchardstown. 18 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 76 lines call at 314 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

8 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Blanchardstown?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 9 km north-west of Dublin and 9 km from Dublin, on the M50, N3 and R102.
How big is Blanchardstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 14,296 buildings, 361 named streets and 335 named places, which by building count makes it the 9th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Blanchardstown?
720 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Waterville Park, Waterville Park Playground and Royal Canal.
How do you get to Blanchardstown?
76 bus and train lines call at 314 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Citylink. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
14,296
buildings on the model
361
named streets
335
named places
109
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 (item Q496387). 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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