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About Maynooth

Maynooth, Maigh Nuad in Irish, is a town in County Kildare, 22 km west of Dublin. It stands on the R148, R157 and R405. The map gives it 8,612 buildings and 204 named streets, with 434 places named on them in 121 kinds, and 197 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Population
17,259, as the map records it
Where
22 km west of Dublin
Position
53.3830° N, 6.5923° W, 48 m above sea level
Roads
R148, R157, R405, R406, R408, L1012, L1013 and L1014
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Canet-en-Roussillon, France
On the model
8,612 buildings, 204 streets, 434 named places in 121 kinds
Maynooth County Kildare (1059940587)
Maynooth County Kildare (1059940587)·William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Peoples Purveyors & Providers (8380163166)
Peoples Purveyors & Providers (8380163166)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Maynooth in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1350 to 1988. That is not a history of Maynooth, 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 · 12 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth century
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 197 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R148, R157, R405, R406, R408, L1012, L1013 and L1014 running through Maynooth. 61 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 26 lines call at 46 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

13 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Maynooth?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 22 km west of Dublin and 22 km from Dublin, on the R148, R157 and R405.
How big is Maynooth?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 8,612 buildings, 204 named streets and 434 named places, which by building count makes it the 4th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Maynooth?
197 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Pound Park, Memorial to 1916 Volunteers from Maynooth and Geraldine's Castle.
How do you get to Maynooth?
26 bus and train lines call at 46 stops here in the published timetable, run by Ardcavan Coach Tours, Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
8,612
buildings on the model
204
named streets
434
named places
121
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 Q750265). 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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