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About Dunderry

Dunderry is a village in County Meath, 44 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the L4003 and L4023. The map gives it 529 buildings and 4 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 106 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 43th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
44 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.6076° N, 6.7735° W
Roads
L4003 and L4023
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
529 buildings, 4 streets, 8 named places in 21 kinds

Dunderry in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1147 to 1982. That is not a history of Dunderry, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

11471982Bective AbbeyDunderry lodge
The twelfth century
  • 1147Bective AbbeyAbbeys · 5.5 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryBabe's BridgeRingforts and sites · 11 km from the centre
  • 1206Newtown AbbeyHistoric churches · 5.8 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twentieth century

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 106 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L4003 and L4023 running through Dunderry.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Dunderry?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 44 km north-west of Dublin and 44 km from Dublin, on the L4003 and L4023.
How big is Dunderry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 529 buildings, 4 named streets and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 43th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Dunderry?
106 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Black Church, Moymet Castle and Bohermeen.
How do you get to Dunderry?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Louth Meath Fingal.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
529
buildings on the model
4
named streets
8
named places
21
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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