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About Johnstown

Johnstown, Baile Eoin in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 27 km south-west of Dublin, with 1,004 people at the 2011 census. It stands on the M7, N7 and R445. The map gives it 1,005 buildings and 14 named streets, with 36 places named on them in 44 kinds, and 137 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Population
1,004 at the 2011 census
Where
27 km south-west of Dublin
Position
53.2365° N, 6.6234° W
Roads
M7, N7, R445, L2012 and L6037
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,005 buildings, 14 streets, 36 named places in 44 kinds
N7/E20 Naas Road, Bridge at Junction 8
N7/E20 Naas Road, Bridge at Junction 8·David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bridge over Naas Road
Bridge over Naas Road·David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Johnstown in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1350 to 1988. That is not a history of Johnstown, 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.

13501988Oughterard ChurchThe Steam Musem
The fourteenth century
  • 1350Oughterard ChurchHistoric churches · 6.0 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
  • the 1630sJigginstown HouseHistoric houses · 4.7 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twentieth century

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 137 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M7, N7, R445, L2012 and L6037 running through Johnstown. 5 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

14 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Johnstown?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 27 km south-west of Dublin and 27 km from Dublin, on the M7, N7 and R445.
How big is Johnstown?
1,004 people at the 2011 census. On the map it is 1,005 buildings and 14 named streets.
What is there to see in Johnstown?
137 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St. John's Church, Kerdiffstown Park and Furness Church.
How do you get to Johnstown?
14 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Dublin Coach, Go-Ahead Ireland and JJ Kavanagh.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
1,005
buildings on the model
14
named streets
36
named places
44
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 Q4160455). 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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