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About Athboy

Athboy, Baile Átha Buí in Irish, is a town in County Meath, 53 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the N51, R154 and R164. The map gives it 2,939 buildings and 36 named streets, with 101 places named on them in 65 kinds, and 129 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
53 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.6228° N, 6.9185° W, 61 m above sea level
Roads
N51, R154, R164, L4001 and L4003
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,939 buildings, 36 streets, 101 named places in 65 kinds
Athboy, Co. Meath (28686693144)
Athboy, Co. Meath (28686693144)·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
House on the L40031
House on the L40031·James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0 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 129 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N51, R154, R164, L4001 and L4003 running through Athboy. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

6 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: O'Growney National School and Athboy Community School.

Questions people ask

Where is Athboy?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 53 km north-west of Dublin and 53 km from Dublin, on the N51, R154 and R164.
How big is Athboy?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,939 buildings, 36 named streets and 101 named places, which by building count makes it the 8th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Athboy?
129 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Athboy Hub, The Cowpark and Scarlet Park.
How do you get to Athboy?
6 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Streamline Coaches and TFI Local Link Louth Meath Fingal.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
2,939
buildings on the model
36
named streets
101
named places
65
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 Q754964). 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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