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About Trim

Trim, Baile Átha Troim in Irish, is a town in County Meath, 42 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R154, R158 and R160. The map gives it 7,342 buildings and 110 named streets, with 250 places named on them in 106 kinds, and 75 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Population
9,563, as the map records it
Where
42 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.5556° N, 6.7914° W, 61 m above sea level
Roads
R154, R158, R160, R161, R933, L4013, L4022 and L4023
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
7,342 buildings, 110 streets, 250 named places in 106 kinds
Trim Bridge, Co Meath This bridge crosses the River Boyne near the castle. It was built about 1330, and is regarded as the oldest unchanged medieval bridge in Ireland.
Trim Bridge, Co Meath This bridge crosses the River Boyne near the castle. It was built about 1330, and is regarded as the oldest unchanged medieval bridge in Ireland.·C O'Flanagan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Trim Castle
Trim Castle·ingawh, CC BY-SA 3.0 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 75 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R154, R158, R160, R161, R933, L4013, L4022 and L4023 running through Trim. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

8 lines call at 21 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

9 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Trim?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 42 km north-west of Dublin and 42 km from Dublin, on the R154, R158 and R160.
How big is Trim?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 7,342 buildings, 110 named streets and 250 named places, which by building count makes it the 2th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Trim?
75 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tourist Office, Entering The Keep and Trim Castle.
How do you get to Trim?
8 bus and train lines call at 21 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Royal Breffni Tours and Streamline Coaches.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
7,342
buildings on the model
110
named streets
250
named places
106
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 Q1012496). 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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