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About Garristown

Garristown is a village in County Dublin, 26 km north of Dublin. It stands on the R130, L1005 and L1006. The map gives it 771 buildings and 17 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 51 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 47th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
26 km north of Dublin
Position
53.5669° N, 6.3836° W, 120 m above sea level
Roads
R130, L1005, L1006 and L1030
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
771 buildings, 17 streets, 12 named places in 25 kinds
Garristown Church
Garristown Church·Offdaw, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Garristown Church
Garristown Church·Offdaw, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 51 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R130, L1005, L1006 and L1030 running through Garristown.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Saint Mary's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Garristown?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 26 km north of Dublin and 26 km from Dublin, on the R130, L1005 and L1006.
How big is Garristown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 771 buildings, 17 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 47th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Garristown?
51 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Attenuation Pond, Newtown Hill and The story of the milk stand.
How do you get to Garristown?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
771
buildings on the model
17
named streets
12
named places
25
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 Q4133911). 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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