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County Kildare · Leinster

About Derrinturn

Derrinturn, Doire an tSoirn in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 45 km west of Dublin. It stands on the R403. The map gives it 1,225 buildings and 1 named street, with 3 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 83 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 20th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
45 km west of Dublin
Position
53.3395° N, 6.9400° W
Roads
R403
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,225 buildings, 1 street, 3 named places in 17 kinds
The Holy Trinity Church Derrinturn
The Holy Trinity Church Derrinturn·Robin Pollard, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The bell in the graveyard at Derrinturn church
The bell in the graveyard at Derrinturn church·Robin Pollard, CC BY 3.0 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 83 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R403 running through Derrinturn.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 11 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St Conleth's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Derrinturn?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 45 km west of Dublin and 45 km from Dublin, on the R403.
How big is Derrinturn?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,225 buildings, 1 named street and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 20th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Derrinturn?
83 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Trinity Well, Bog Oak and Carbury Hill.
How do you get to Derrinturn?
4 bus and train lines call at 11 stops here in the published timetable, run by Go-Ahead Ireland.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
1,225
buildings on the model
1
named streets
3
named places
17
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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