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About Baconstown

Baconstown is a village in County Meath, 37 km west of Dublin. The map gives it 511 buildings and 0 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 49 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 47th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
37 km west of Dublin
Position
53.4435° N, 6.8032° W
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
511 buildings, 0 streets, 3 named places in 17 kinds

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 49 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Baconstown; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Saint Patrick National School Baconstown.

Questions people ask

Where is Baconstown?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 37 km west of Dublin and 37 km from Dublin.
How big is Baconstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 511 buildings, 0 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 47th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Baconstown?
49 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cloncurry Moate, Old Bog Road made famous by Teresa Bryton 1868-1943 and Agher House.
How do you get to Baconstown?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
511
buildings on the model
0
named streets
3
named places
17
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. 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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