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About Oldcastle

Oldcastle, An Seanchaisleán in Irish, is a town in County Meath, 76 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R154, R195 and L7095. The map gives it 2,197 buildings and 39 named streets, with 116 places named on them in 68 kinds, and 229 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
76 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.7692° N, 7.1625° W, 61 m above sea level
Roads
R154, R195 and L7095
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,197 buildings, 39 streets, 116 named places in 68 kinds
Caffreys of the Square, Oldcastle
Caffreys of the Square, Oldcastle·HENRY CLARK, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church Street from The Square
Church Street from The Square·HENRY CLARK, 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 229 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R154, R195 and L7095 running through Oldcastle.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop 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 Oldcastle?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 76 km north-west of Dublin and 76 km from Dublin, on the R154, R195 and L7095.
How big is Oldcastle?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,197 buildings, 39 named streets and 116 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Oldcastle?
229 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Memorial Cross, Mount Fortune and Fennor Lower.
How do you get to Oldcastle?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop 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.
2,197
buildings on the model
39
named streets
116
named places
68
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 Q269623). 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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