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Westmeath
County Westmeath · Leinster

About Fore

Fore, Baile Fhobhair in Irish, is a village in County Westmeath, 74 km north-west of Dublin. The map gives it 224 buildings and 0 named streets, with 17 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 142 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Where
74 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.6805° N, 7.2263° W, 101 m above sea level
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
224 buildings, 0 streets, 17 named places in 16 kinds
A view of St Fechin’s Church.
A view of St Fechin’s Church.·Marathon, 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 142 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Fore?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 74 km north-west of Dublin and 74 km from Dublin.
How big is Fore?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 224 buildings, 0 named streets and 17 named places, which by building count makes it the 27th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.
What is there to see in Fore?
142 things the map records in and around it, the closest being South East Gate, St Feichin's Church and St Feichin's Mill.
How do you get to Fore?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Westmeath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 141,300 people in the county in 1841 and 96,221 in 2022.
224
buildings on the model
0
named streets
17
named places
16
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 Q3077129). 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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