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County Westmeath · Leinster

About Mount Temple

Mount Temple, An Grianán in Irish, is a village in County Westmeath, 86 km east of Galway. It stands on the L1437. The map gives it 239 buildings and 14 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 68 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 25th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Where
86 km east of Galway, 101 km from Dublin
Position
53.4266° N, 7.7766° W
Roads
L1437
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
239 buildings, 14 streets, 16 named places in 27 kinds
Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, Mount Temple, County Westmeath.
Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, Mount Temple, County Westmeath.·Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
County Westmeath, Corpus Christi Church.
County Westmeath, Corpus Christi Church.·Gerard Michael Lynch, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 68 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1437 running through Mount Temple. 2 car parks on the map.

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: An Grianán National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Mount Temple?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 86 km east of Galway and 101 km from Dublin, on the L1437.
How big is Mount Temple?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 239 buildings, 14 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 25th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.
What is there to see in Mount Temple?
68 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Holy Trinity Church, School Garden and Carn Castle.
How do you get to Mount Temple?
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.
239
buildings on the model
14
named streets
16
named places
27
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 Q4285552). 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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