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About Kildalkey

Kildalkey, Cill Dealga in Irish, is a village in County Meath, 49 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the L4001, L4012 and L4013. The map gives it 882 buildings and 2 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 66 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
49 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.5712° N, 6.9055° W
Roads
L4001, L4012 and L4013
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
882 buildings, 2 streets, 3 named places in 16 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Moyrath, Co. Meath (1)
Castles of Leinster: Moyrath, Co. Meath (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
St. Dympna' Church, Kildalkey, Co. Meath geograph.org.uk 1822676
St. Dympna' Church, Kildalkey, Co. Meath geograph.org.uk 1822676·Kieran Campbell, 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 66 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L4001, L4012 and L4013 running through Kildalkey.

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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Kildalkey?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 49 km north-west of Dublin and 49 km from Dublin, on the L4001, L4012 and L4013.
How big is Kildalkey?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 882 buildings, 2 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 22th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Kildalkey?
66 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St Mary's Church, (site of), Tremblestown Castle and Fraine Castle.
How do you get to Kildalkey?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
882
buildings on the model
2
named streets
3
named places
16
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 Q2081766). 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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