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About Oberstown

Oberstown is a village in County Meath, 32 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the M3 and L1003. The map gives it 677 buildings and 7 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 84 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 31th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
32 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.5778° N, 6.5467° W
Roads
M3 and L1003
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
677 buildings, 7 streets, 12 named places in 21 kinds
Skryne Church, County Meath
Skryne Church, County Meath·Ianfhunter, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Meath, Skryne Church.
County Meath, Skryne Church.·Royalcanalrunner, 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 84 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M3 and L1003 running through Oberstown.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Oberstown?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 32 km north-west of Dublin and 32 km from Dublin, on the M3 and L1003.
How big is Oberstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 677 buildings, 7 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 31th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Oberstown?
84 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Candle Hill, Skreen Castle and Skryne Church.
How do you get to Oberstown?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the M3 and L1003.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
677
buildings on the model
7
named streets
12
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. 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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