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About Goatstown

Goatstown, Bhaile na nGabhar in Irish, is a village in County Dublin, 7 km south of Dublin. It stands on the N11, N31 and R112. The map gives it 8,520 buildings and 222 named streets, with 292 places named on them in 117 kinds, and 946 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
7 km south of Dublin
Position
53.2927° N, 6.2293° W
Roads
N11, N31, R112, R117, R133, R138, R825 and R826
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
8,520 buildings, 222 streets, 292 named places in 117 kinds
View facing south along the R825 road in Goatstown in Dublin in Ireland, at its intersection with Farmhill Park (right).
View facing south along the R825 road in Goatstown in Dublin in Ireland, at its intersection with Farmhill Park (right).·Deitel55 at English Wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Ford Anglia Super, The Goat Pub, GoatsTown, Dublin, Ireland
Ford Anglia Super, The Goat Pub, GoatsTown, Dublin, Ireland·Dwxn, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Goatstown in order

55 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 800s to 2019. That is not a history of Goatstown, 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 · 6.0 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 946 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N11, N31, R112, R117, R133, R138, R825 and R826 running through Goatstown. 18 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 53 lines call at 195 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

16 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Goatstown?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 7 km south of Dublin and 7 km from Dublin, on the N11, N31 and R112.
How big is Goatstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 8,520 buildings, 222 named streets and 292 named places, which by building count makes it the 15th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Goatstown?
946 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Taney Playgound, Airfield Farm and Nature Trail 1400 Orchard.
How do you get to Goatstown?
53 bus and train lines call at 195 stops here in the published timetable, run by Aircoach, Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. 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.
8,520
buildings on the model
222
named streets
292
named places
117
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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