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About Kilmessan

Kilmessan, Cill Mheasáin in Irish, is a village in County Meath, 35 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the L2200 and L2202. The map gives it 860 buildings and 8 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 95 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Population
907, as the map records it
Where
35 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.5607° N, 6.6620° W
Roads
L2200 and L2202
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
860 buildings, 8 streets, 13 named places in 21 kinds
Looks as if this photo of a Hunt at Kilmessan, Co. Meath was taken just at the moment that the hounds were getting the scent of a fox. Date: Circa 1900 NLI Ref.: L_ROY_09055
Looks as if this photo of a Hunt at Kilmessan, Co. Meath was taken just at the moment that the hounds were getting the scent of a fox. Date: Circa 1900 NLI Ref.: L_ROY_09055·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Dunsany Cross on the Dunshaughlin to Dunsany road (continuing to Kilmessan), by the gates of Dunsany Estate
Dunsany Cross on the Dunshaughlin to Dunsany road (continuing to Kilmessan), by the gates of Dunsany Estate·Joe Doyle, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 95 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L2200 and L2202 running through Kilmessan.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 6 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 Kilmessan?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 35 km north-west of Dublin and 35 km from Dublin, on the L2200 and L2202.
How big is Kilmessan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 860 buildings, 8 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 24th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Kilmessan?
95 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ringlestown Rath, Walled Garden and Beech & Oak Wood.
How do you get to Kilmessan?
1 bus and train line calls at 6 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.
860
buildings on the model
8
named streets
13
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 (item Q2081726). 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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