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About Kilmainhamwood

Kilmainhamwood, Cill Mhaighneann in Irish, is a village in County Meath, 66 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R162 and L2802. The map gives it 607 buildings and 11 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 191 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 37th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
66 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.8495° N, 6.8063° W
Roads
R162 and L2802
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
607 buildings, 11 streets, 16 named places in 20 kinds
A tree-lined section of the R162 at Newcastle, Co Meath
A tree-lined section of the R162 at Newcastle, Co Meath·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Farm house at the junction of the R162 and the Kilmainham Wood road
Farm house at the junction of the R162 and the Kilmainham Wood road·Eric Jones, 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 191 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R162 and L2802 running through Kilmainhamwood.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 8 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Kilmainhamwood?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 66 km north-west of Dublin and 66 km from Dublin, on the R162 and L2802.
How big is Kilmainhamwood?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 607 buildings, 11 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 37th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Kilmainhamwood?
191 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Site of Kilmainhamwood Parish Church, Newcastle Lough and Whitewood Lough.
How do you get to Kilmainhamwood?
2 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and 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.
607
buildings on the model
11
named streets
16
named places
20
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 Q6407957). 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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