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About Slane

Slane, Baile Shláine in Irish, is a village in County Meath, 44 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the N2, N51 and R163. The map gives it 1,131 buildings and 31 named streets, with 55 places named on them in 37 kinds, and 123 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 19th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
44 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.7086° N, 6.5432° W, 64 m above sea level
Roads
N2, N51 and R163
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,131 buildings, 31 streets, 55 named places in 37 kinds
Hill of Slane Church
Hill of Slane Church·Raemond Carolan, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
VT13 traveling from Slane to Dublin via Donore and Drogheda Flickr D464 Darren Hall
VT13 traveling from Slane to Dublin via Donore and Drogheda Flickr D464 Darren Hall·D464-Darren Hall, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Slane in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 875 to 1785. That is not a history of Slane, 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.

8751785Muiredach's High CrossSlane Castle
The ninth century
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryBabe's BridgeRingforts and sites · 8.4 km from the centre
The eighteenth 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 123 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N2, N51 and R163 running through Slane. 5 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 8 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Saint Patrick's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Slane?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 44 km north-west of Dublin and 44 km from Dublin, on the N2, N51 and R163.
How big is Slane?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,131 buildings, 31 named streets and 55 named places, which by building count makes it the 19th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Slane?
123 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Hub, Drive Wood and Riverview.
How do you get to Slane?
3 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Collins 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.
1,131
buildings on the model
31
named streets
55
named places
37
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 Q1778869). 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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