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About Carnaross

Carnaross is a village in County Meath, 64 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the N3, R147 and L6829. The map gives it 548 buildings and 11 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 286 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 41th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
64 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.7514° N, 6.9564° W
Roads
N3, R147 and L6829
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
548 buildings, 11 streets, 16 named places in 27 kinds
The South Cross, at Castlekieran, near Carnaross, Co. Meath
The South Cross, at Castlekieran, near Carnaross, Co. Meath·RonanMcCormick, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The holy shrine at Castlekiernan, near Carnaross, Co. Meath
The holy shrine at Castlekiernan, near Carnaross, Co. Meath·RonanMcCormick, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 286 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N3, R147 and L6829 running through Carnaross.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Carnaross National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Carnaross?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 64 km north-west of Dublin and 64 km from Dublin, on the N3, R147 and L6829.
How big is Carnaross?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 548 buildings, 11 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 41th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Carnaross?
286 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carnaross Hill, Castlekieran Chapel and Woodpole National School.
How do you get to Carnaross?
4 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann 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.
548
buildings on the model
11
named streets
16
named places
27
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 Q2081248). 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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