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County Westmeath · Leinster

About Baylin

Baylin is a village in County Westmeath, 82 km east of Galway. The map gives it 199 buildings and 1 named street, with 6 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 69 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 31th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Where
82 km east of Galway, 106 km from Dublin
Position
53.4331° N, 7.8462° W
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
199 buildings, 1 street, 6 named places in 17 kinds
Bealin High Cross, West Side (16912314830)
Bealin High Cross, West Side (16912314830)·Bradley Davis from Kilcullen, Ireland, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ireland in Ruins: Moydrum Castle, Co. Westmeath (1)
Ireland in Ruins: Moydrum Castle, Co. Westmeath (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 69 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Baylin; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Ciaran's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Baylin?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 82 km east of Galway and 106 km from Dublin.
How big is Baylin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 199 buildings, 1 named street and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 31th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.
What is there to see in Baylin?
69 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Bealin High Cross, Moydrum Church and Moydrum Castle.
How do you get to Baylin?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon.
Has County Westmeath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 141,300 people in the county in 1841 and 96,221 in 2022.
199
buildings on the model
1
named streets
6
named places
17
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 Q26719022). 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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