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About Newbridge

Newbridge, Droichead Nua in Irish, is a town in County Kildare, 40 km south-west of Dublin. It stands on the M7, M9 and R416. The map gives it 10,172 buildings and 133 named streets, with 294 places named on them in 122 kinds, and 96 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Population
24,366, as the map records it
Where
40 km south-west of Dublin
Position
53.1801° N, 6.7982° W, 90 m above sea level
Area
16.31 km²
Roads
M7, M9, R416, R445, L2003, L2028, L4079 and L70419
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
10,172 buildings, 133 streets, 294 named places in 122 kinds
A view of Newbridge Town Hall.
A view of Newbridge Town Hall.·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Newbridge in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 1630s to 1958. That is not a history of Newbridge, 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.

the 1630s1958Jigginstown HousePatrician Secondary School
The seventeenth century
  • the 1630sJigginstown HouseHistoric houses · 8.5 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 96 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M7, M9, R416, R445, L2003, L2028, L4079 and L70419 running through Newbridge. 29 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 21 lines call at 58 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

7 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Newbridge?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 40 km south-west of Dublin and 40 km from Dublin, on the M7, M9 and R416.
How big is Newbridge?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 10,172 buildings, 133 named streets and 294 named places, which by building count makes it the 2th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Newbridge?
96 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Newbridge Town Park, River Liffey Map and Newbridge Town Park.
How do you get to Newbridge?
21 bus and train lines call at 58 stops here in the published timetable, run by Dublin Coach, Go-Ahead Ireland and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. 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.
10,172
buildings on the model
133
named streets
294
named places
122
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 Q958397). 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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