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About Carlanstown

Carlanstown, Droichead Chearbhalláin in Irish, is a village in County Meath, 60 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the N52, L2810 and L2811. The map gives it 893 buildings and 31 named streets, with 30 places named on them in 35 kinds, and 250 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
60 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.7585° N, 6.8414° W
Roads
N52, L2810 and L2811
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
893 buildings, 31 streets, 30 named places in 35 kinds
Windmill at Headfort Demesne, Kells
Windmill at Headfort Demesne, Kells·Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Wee house at Balreask, Co. Meath
Wee house at Balreask, Co. Meath·Kieran Campbell, 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 250 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N52, L2810 and L2811 running through Carlanstown. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Mhuire Carlanstown.

Questions people ask

Where is Carlanstown?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 60 km north-west of Dublin and 60 km from Dublin, on the N52, L2810 and L2811.
How big is Carlanstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 893 buildings, 31 named streets and 30 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Carlanstown?
250 things the map records in and around it, the closest being John Mac Mahon, Saint Patrick's Well and Deerpark.
How do you get to Carlanstown?
4 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Royal Breffni Tours and TFI Local Link Cavan Monaghan.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
893
buildings on the model
31
named streets
30
named places
35
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 Q26716026). 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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