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About Laytown

Laytown, An Inse in Irish, is a village in County Meath, 37 km north of Dublin. It stands on the R150. The map gives it 1,302 buildings and 27 named streets, with 24 places named on them in 30 kinds, and 58 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
37 km north of Dublin
Position
53.6819° N, 6.2392° W
Roads
R150
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,302 buildings, 27 streets, 24 named places in 30 kinds
Laytown (Co. Meath)
Laytown (Co. Meath)·Bananenfalter, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Laytown (7675101354)
Laytown (7675101354)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions 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 58 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R150 running through Laytown. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 5 lines call at 16 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 Laytown?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 37 km north of Dublin and 37 km from Dublin, on the R150.
How big is Laytown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,302 buildings, 27 named streets and 24 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Laytown?
58 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ninch Barrow, Ballygarth Castle and Sarsfieldstown Cross.
How do you get to Laytown?
5 bus and train lines call at 16 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and Matthews Coach Hire. 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.
1,302
buildings on the model
27
named streets
24
named places
30
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 Q1902456). 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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