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About Moynalty

Moynalty, Maigh nEalta in Irish, is a village in County Meath, 64 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R164, R194 and L2803. The map gives it 540 buildings and 13 named streets, with 21 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 262 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 42th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
64 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.7890° N, 6.8866° W
Roads
R164, R194, L2803 and L2810
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
540 buildings, 13 streets, 21 named places in 20 kinds
The R164 approaching the Owenroe River Bridge at Moynalty
The R164 approaching the Owenroe River Bridge at Moynalty·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Church of Ireland Parish Church at Moynalty
The Church of Ireland Parish Church at Moynalty·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 262 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R164, R194, L2803 and L2810 running through Moynalty.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Moynalty?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 64 km north-west of Dublin and 64 km from Dublin, on the R164, R194 and L2803.
How big is Moynalty?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 540 buildings, 13 named streets and 21 named places, which by building count makes it the 42th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Moynalty?
262 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Borora and Threshing Field Walk, Moynalty Steam Threshing Field and Moynalty Steam Threshing Museum.
How do you get to Moynalty?
4 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Royal Breffni Tours, TFI Local Link Cavan Monaghan 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.
540
buildings on the model
13
named streets
21
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 Q2577934). 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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