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About Lucan

Lucan, Leamhcán in Irish, is a town in County Dublin, 13 km west of Dublin. It stands on the N4, R113 and R120. The map gives it 19,242 buildings and 669 named streets, with 287 places named on them in 91 kinds, and 501 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
13 km west of Dublin
Position
53.3567° N, 6.4502° W
Roads
N4, R113, R120, R121, R134, R136, R835 and L1005
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
19,242 buildings, 669 streets, 287 named places in 91 kinds
Lucan steam train (34858452315)
Lucan steam train (34858452315)·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Stobart Ireland H6590 "Asheligh Paige" (12 D 35541) 2012 Scania R440, 3 December 2013 (1)
Stobart Ireland H6590 "Asheligh Paige" (12 D 35541) 2012 Scania R440, 3 December 2013 (1)·Peter Mooney, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Lucan in order

17 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1350 to 2000. That is not a history of Lucan, 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.

13502000Oughterard ChurchGuinness Storehouse
The fourteenth century
  • 1350Oughterard ChurchHistoric churches · 12 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
The seventeenth century
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth 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 501 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N4, R113, R120, R121, R134, R136, R835 and L1005 running through Lucan. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 47 lines call at 268 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

20 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Lucan?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 13 km west of Dublin and 13 km from Dublin, on the N4, R113 and R120.
How big is Lucan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 19,242 buildings, 669 named streets and 287 named places, which by building count makes it the 5th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Lucan?
501 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Primrose Hill House & Garden, Vesey Park and Esker Church (ruin).
How do you get to Lucan?
47 bus and train lines call at 268 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.
19,242
buildings on the model
669
named streets
287
named places
91
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 Q1798906). 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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