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County Westmeath · Leinster

About Athlone

Athlone, Baile Átha Luain in Irish, is a town in County Westmeath, 75 km east of Galway. It stands on the M6, N6 and N55. The map gives it 10,015 buildings and 285 named streets, with 666 places named on them in 182 kinds, and 97 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Population
22,869, as the map records it
Where
75 km east of Galway, 112 km from Dublin
Position
53.4228° N, 7.9426° W, 56 m above sea level
Area
10.92 km²
Roads
M6, N6, N55, N62, R446, R914, R915 and R916
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Châteaubriant, France
On the model
10,015 buildings, 285 streets, 666 named places in 182 kinds
Excise Street in the evening, seen from St. Peter's Port.
Excise Street in the evening, seen from St. Peter's Port.·Bernd Thaller from Graz, Austria, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
Main Street, Athlone, Co. Westmeath·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Athlone in order

11 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 900 to 2021. That is not a history of Athlone, 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.

9002021Sean's BarTechnological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest
The ninth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

County Westmeath 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.

141,30052,86196,22118412022

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 97 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M6, N6, N55, N62, R446, R914, R915 and R916 running through Athlone. 20 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 20 lines call at 90 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

15 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Athlone?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 75 km east of Galway and 112 km from Dublin, on the M6, N6 and N55.
How big is Athlone?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 10,015 buildings, 285 named streets and 666 named places, which by building count makes it the largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.
What is there to see in Athlone?
97 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Athlone Castle, Historic Town - Athlone Castle & Church of St Peter and Paul and Historic Town - The Lock Gates.
How do you get to Athlone?
20 bus and train lines call at 90 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink and Farrelly's Coaches. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Westmeath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 141,300 people in the county in 1841 and 96,221 in 2022.
10,015
buildings on the model
285
named streets
666
named places
182
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 Q369911). 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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