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About Navan

Navan, An Uaimh in Irish, is a town in County Meath, 44 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the M3, N51 and R147. The map gives it 15,334 buildings and 265 named streets, with 392 places named on them in 126 kinds, and 147 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Population
33,886, as the map records it
Where
44 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.6531° N, 6.6840° W, 42 m above sea level
Area
44.46 km²
Roads
M3, N51, R147, R153, R161, R162, R895 and L1014
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Bobbio, Italy and Broccostella, Italy
On the model
15,334 buildings, 265 streets, 392 named places in 126 kinds
A view of Athlumney Castle.
A view of Athlumney Castle.·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A view of St Mary’s Church.
A view of St Mary’s Church.·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Navan in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1147 to 1935. That is not a history of Navan, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

11471935Bective AbbeyPáirc Tailteann
The twelfth century
  • 1147Bective AbbeyAbbeys · 7.9 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryBabe's BridgeRingforts and sites · 2.9 km from the centre
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

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 147 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M3, N51, R147, R153, R161, R162, R895 and L1014 running through Navan. 47 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

18 lines call at 107 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

17 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Navan?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 44 km north-west of Dublin and 44 km from Dublin, on the M3, N51 and R147.
How big is Navan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 15,334 buildings, 265 named streets and 392 named places, which by building count makes it the largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Navan?
147 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Rampart, Andy Brennan Park and Boyne Ramparts Heritage Walk.
How do you get to Navan?
18 bus and train lines call at 107 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, McCaffrey Coaches and Royal Breffni Tours.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
15,334
buildings on the model
265
named streets
392
named places
126
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 Q217845). 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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