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About Palmerstown

Palmerstown is a village in County Dublin, 7 km west of Dublin. It stands on the M50, N4 and R109. The map gives it 9,187 buildings and 182 named streets, with 376 places named on them in 128 kinds, and 810 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
7 km west of Dublin
Position
53.3560° N, 6.3705° W
Roads
M50, N4, R109, R112, R148, R833, L1006 and L1012
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
9,187 buildings, 182 streets, 376 named places in 128 kinds
Farmleigh Bridge (also known as Guinness Bridge) across the Liffey near Palmerston, Co Dublin.
Farmleigh Bridge (also known as Guinness Bridge) across the Liffey near Palmerston, Co Dublin.·Csd75, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Entrance to the Phoenix Park from the Knockmaroon Road Gate. interior view of the left hand entrance by the gate lodge. April 2022.
Entrance to the Phoenix Park from the Knockmaroon Road Gate. interior view of the left hand entrance by the gate lodge. April 2022.·Laurel Lodged, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Palmerstown 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 Palmerstown, 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 · 7.7 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 810 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M50, N4, R109, R112, R148, R833, L1006 and L1012 running through Palmerstown. 12 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

44 lines call at 81 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

15 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Palmerstown?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 7 km west of Dublin and 7 km from Dublin, on the M50, N4 and R109.
How big is Palmerstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 9,187 buildings, 182 named streets and 376 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Palmerstown?
810 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Waterstown, Church and Waterstown.
How do you get to Palmerstown?
44 bus and train lines call at 81 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Citylink.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
9,187
buildings on the model
182
named streets
376
named places
128
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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