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About Calverstown

Calverstown, Baile an Chalbhaigh in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 47 km south-west of Dublin. It stands on the L8008. The map gives it 732 buildings and 16 named streets, with 4 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 88 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 28th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
47 km south-west of Dublin
Position
53.0825° N, 6.7986° W, 106 m above sea level
Roads
L8008
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
732 buildings, 16 streets, 4 named places in 21 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Calverstown, Kildare (2)
Castles of Leinster: Calverstown, Kildare (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Leinster: Calverstown, Kildare (1)
Castles of Leinster: Calverstown, Kildare (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Kildare 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.

247,77457,892114,48818412022

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 88 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L8008 running through Calverstown.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Ballyshannon National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Calverstown?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 47 km south-west of Dublin and 47 km from Dublin, on the L8008.
How big is Calverstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 732 buildings, 16 named streets and 4 named places, which by building count makes it the 28th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Calverstown?
88 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Castle ruins, Blackhall Castle and McDonald's PlayPlace.
How do you get to Calverstown?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Go-Ahead Ireland and TFI Local Link Kildare South Dublin.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
732
buildings on the model
16
named streets
4
named places
21
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 Q4210476). 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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