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About Oldtown

Oldtown is a village in County Dublin, 20 km north of Dublin. It stands on the R122 and L1040. The map gives it 653 buildings and 8 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 116 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 48th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
20 km north of Dublin
Position
53.5240° N, 6.3152° W, 63 m above sea level
Roads
R122 and L1040
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
653 buildings, 8 streets, 11 named places in 25 kinds
County Dublin, Oldtown Hall (Dublin).
County Dublin, Oldtown Hall (Dublin).·Jonjobaker, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Daws River (Ballyboghil tributary) at Oldtown
Daws River (Ballyboghil tributary) at Oldtown·jwd, 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 116 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R122 and L1040 running through Oldtown.

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. Mary's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Oldtown?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 20 km north of Dublin and 20 km from Dublin, on the R122 and L1040.
How big is Oldtown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 653 buildings, 8 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 48th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Oldtown?
116 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St. Mary's Church, Westpalstown Ruined Church and St. John's Well.
How do you get to Oldtown?
2 bus and train lines call at 7 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.
653
buildings on the model
8
named streets
11
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 Q4333455). 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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