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About Ashbourne

Ashbourne, Cill Dhéagláin in Irish, is a town in County Meath, 20 km north-west of Dublin, with 15,680 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the N2, R125 and R130. The map gives it 7,246 buildings and 153 named streets, with 219 places named on them in 101 kinds, and 75 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Population
15,680 at the 2022 census
Where
20 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.5116° N, 6.3982° W, 73 m above sea level
Roads
N2, R125, R130, R135, L1040, L5018, L5019 and L50192
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
7,246 buildings, 153 streets, 219 named places in 101 kinds
Ashbourne House hotel
Ashbourne House hotel·Julian P Guffogg, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The image is incorrectly named (doh!), the church is actually the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ashbourne, Co. Meath, Ireland.
The image is incorrectly named (doh!), the church is actually the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ashbourne, Co. Meath, Ireland.·Trounce, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons

County Meath 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.

220,82661,405183,82818412022

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 75 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N2, R125, R130, R135, L1040, L5018, L5019 and L50192 running through Ashbourne. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

11 lines call at 31 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Ashbourne?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 20 km north-west of Dublin and 20 km from Dublin, on the N2, R125 and R130.
How big is Ashbourne?
15,680 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 7,246 buildings and 153 named streets.
What is there to see in Ashbourne?
75 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Store Directory, The Green and Deerpark.
How do you get to Ashbourne?
11 bus and train lines call at 31 stops here in the published timetable, run by Ashbourne Connect, Bus Éireann and Go-Ahead Ireland.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
7,246
buildings on the model
153
named streets
219
named places
101
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 Q1766143). 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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