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About Castletown

Castletown, Baile an Chaisleáin in Irish, is a village in County Meath, 57 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the N52, R162 and L3406. The map gives it 513 buildings and 9 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 179 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 46th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
57 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.7804° N, 6.7145° W
Roads
N52, R162 and L3406
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
513 buildings, 9 streets, 14 named places in 19 kinds
Houses on a bend on the R162 at Williamstown
Houses on a bend on the R162 at Williamstown·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castletown
Castletown·Pitchin in the Wind, CC BY-SA 3.0 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 179 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N52, R162 and L3406 running through Castletown.

By bus or train

2 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: Saint Patrick's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Castletown?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 57 km north-west of Dublin and 57 km from Dublin, on the N52, R162 and L3406.
How big is Castletown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 513 buildings, 9 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 46th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Castletown?
179 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Castletown Trail, Castletown Fort and Rahards Fort.
How do you get to Castletown?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Royal Breffni Tours.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
513
buildings on the model
9
named streets
14
named places
19
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 Q124742342). 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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