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About Dunboyne

Dunboyne, Dún Búinne in Irish, is a town in County Meath, 16 km north-west of Dublin, with 5,713 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the M3, R147 and R154. The map gives it 5,426 buildings and 68 named streets, with 167 places named on them in 81 kinds, and 202 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Population
5,713 at the 2006 census
Where
16 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.4194° N, 6.4760° W, 70 m above sea level
Roads
M3, R147, R154, R155, R156, R157, L2221 and L2225
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
5,426 buildings, 68 streets, 167 named places in 81 kinds
Dunboyne Castle
Dunboyne Castle·Chris Andrews, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church of Saints Peter & Paul, Dunboyne, Co. Meath, Ireland
Church of Saints Peter & Paul, Dunboyne, Co. Meath, Ireland·Cornelstown, public domain 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 202 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M3, R147, R154, R155, R156, R157, L2221 and L2225 running through Dunboyne. 14 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 21 lines call at 46 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: Dunboyne National School, Saint Peter's College, Gaelscoil Thulach na nÓg and St. Peter's National School Dunboyne.

Questions people ask

Where is Dunboyne?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 16 km north-west of Dublin and 16 km from Dublin, on the M3, R147 and R154.
How big is Dunboyne?
5,713 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 5,426 buildings and 68 named streets.
What is there to see in Dunboyne?
202 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Jesus Christus, The Green and Hanwood Gardens.
How do you get to Dunboyne?
21 bus and train lines call at 46 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Go-Ahead Ireland. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
5,426
buildings on the model
68
named streets
167
named places
81
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 Q1012505). 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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