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County Westmeath · Leinster

About Mullingar

Mullingar, An Muileann gCearr in Irish, is a town in County Westmeath, 74 km west of Dublin, with 20,928 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the N4, N52 and R392. The map gives it 9,529 buildings and 205 named streets, with 373 places named on them in 117 kinds, and 82 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Population
20,928 at the 2016 census
Where
74 km west of Dublin
Position
53.5258° N, 7.3413° W, 101 m above sea level
Roads
N4, N52, R392, R393, R394, R400, L1132 and L1136
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
9,529 buildings, 205 streets, 373 named places in 117 kinds
A view of the Greville Arms Hotel's exterior on Pearse Street, Mullingar
A view of the Greville Arms Hotel's exterior on Pearse Street, Mullingar·Shaun Nolan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A view of the Dunnes Stores, the anchor of the Harbour Place Shopping Centre in Mullingar, entrance.
A view of the Dunnes Stores, the anchor of the Harbour Place Shopping Centre in Mullingar, entrance.·Shaun Nolan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Mullingar in order

9 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1802 to 2000. That is not a history of Mullingar, 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.

18022000Saint Finian's CollegeAugustinian Monks Memorial Statue
The nineteenth century
The twentieth 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 82 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N4, N52, R392, R393, R394, R400, L1132 and L1136 running through Mullingar. 14 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 15 lines call at 60 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

11 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Mullingar?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 74 km west of Dublin and 74 km from Dublin, on the N4, N52 and R392.
How big is Mullingar?
20,928 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 9,529 buildings and 205 named streets.
What is there to see in Mullingar?
82 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Joe Dolan, Market House and Famine Memorial.
How do you get to Mullingar?
15 bus and train lines call at 60 stops here in the published timetable, run by Allen's Bus Hire, Bernard Kavanagh & Sons and Bus Éireann. 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.
9,529
buildings on the model
205
named streets
373
named places
117
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 Q55308). 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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