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About Johnstown Bridge

Johnstown Bridge, Baile Sheáin in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 40 km west of Dublin. It stands on the R402 and L1004. The map gives it 555 buildings and 9 named streets, with 19 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 60 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 36th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
40 km west of Dublin
Position
53.4020° N, 6.8541° W
Roads
R402 and L1004
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
555 buildings, 9 streets, 19 named places in 28 kinds
Johnstown, Co Meath
Johnstown, Co Meath·Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The R402 at Johnstown Bridge in County Kildare
The R402 at Johnstown Bridge in County Kildare·The original uploader was Sarah777 at English Wikipedia., 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 60 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R402 and L1004 running through Johnstown Bridge. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

4 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: Saint Patrick's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Johnstown Bridge?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 40 km west of Dublin and 40 km from Dublin, on the R402 and L1004.
How big is Johnstown Bridge?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 555 buildings, 9 named streets and 19 named places, which by building count makes it the 36th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Johnstown Bridge?
60 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Coolree Fort, The Royal Canal Park and Picnic Area.
How do you get to Johnstown Bridge?
4 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Go-Ahead Ireland and TFI Local Link Louth Meath Fingal.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
555
buildings on the model
9
named streets
19
named places
28
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 Q4160452). 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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