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County Meath · Leinster

About Enfield

Enfield, An Bóthar Buí in Irish, is a town in County Meath, 38 km west of Dublin, with 3,663 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the R148, L1004 and L6229. The map gives it 2,865 buildings and 50 named streets, with 80 places named on them in 59 kinds, and 54 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Population
3,663 at the 2022 census
Where
38 km west of Dublin
Position
53.4141° N, 6.8291° W, 77 m above sea level
Roads
R148, L1004 and L6229
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,865 buildings, 50 streets, 80 named places in 59 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Newcastle, Meath (2)
Castles of Leinster: Newcastle, Meath (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Leinster: Newcastle, Meath (3)
Castles of Leinster: Newcastle, Meath (3)·Mike Searle, 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 54 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R148, L1004 and L6229 running through Enfield. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 10 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Saint Mary's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Enfield?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 38 km west of Dublin and 38 km from Dublin, on the R148, L1004 and L6229.
How big is Enfield?
3,663 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 2,865 buildings and 50 named streets.
What is there to see in Enfield?
54 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Royal Canal Park, Cloncurry Moate and Dunfierth Church.
How do you get to Enfield?
10 bus and train lines call at 9 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink 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.
2,865
buildings on the model
50
named streets
80
named places
59
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 Q392078). 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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