Maynooth
Maynooth is a town in County Kildare, 30 km west of Dublin. Maigh Nuad means the plain of Nuadha, the mythical king who lost his arm in battle, was fitted with a silver one, then grew back his own.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maynooth Castle and Maynooth railway station.
Maynooth Castle
Photo: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Maynooth Castle is a ruined castle in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland which stands at the entrance to the South Campus of Maynooth University. Constructed in the early 13th century, it became the primary residence of the Kildare Fitzmaurice and Fitzgerald family.
Maynooth railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mihal Orela, CC BY 3.0.
Maynooth railway station serves the town of Maynooth in north County Kildare, Ireland. It is a key exchange station on the Dublin to Maynooth commuter services, Dublin to Mullingar/Longford long-distance commuter service and Dublin to Sligo InterCity service.
Conolly’s Folly
Photo: Ilja Klutman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Conolly Folly, a.k.a. The Obelisk, is an obelisk structure located between Celbridge, Leixlip and Maynooth in County Kildare, Ireland. It was built in the mid-18th century by the Conolly family, then owners of the Castletown Estate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Celbridge.
Celbridge
Town
Photo: Ian Paterson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Celbridge is a town and townland on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Ireland. It is 23 km west of Dublin. Both a local centre and a commuter town within the Greater Dublin Area, it is located at the intersection of the R403 and R405 regional roads. Celbridge is situated 6 km southeast of Maynooth.
Maynooth
- Type: Town with 17,300 residents
- Description: university town in Ireland
- Categories: college town and locality
- Location: County Kildare, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.383° or 53° 22′ 59″ northLongitude
-6.5923° or 6° 35′ 32″ westPopulation
17,300Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE MAYOpen location code
9C5M9CM5+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 52231383OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Maynooth” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Մայնուտ”
- Armenian: “Մեյնուտ”
- Basque: “Maynooth”
- Breton: “Maigh Nuad”
- Breton: “Maynooth”
- Bulgarian: “Мейнут”
- Catalan: “Maynooth”
- Cebuano: “Maynooth”
- Chinese: “梅努斯”
- Danish: “Maynooth”
- Dutch: “Maynooth”
- Esperanto: “Maynooth”
- French: “Maynooth”
- German: “Maynooth”
- Greek: “Μέινουθ”
- Hebrew: “מיינות‘”
- Hebrew: “מיינות’”
- Hungarian: “Maynooth”
- Indonesian: “Maigh Nuad”
- Indonesian: “Maynooth”
- Irish: “Maigh Nuad”
- Italian: “Maynooth”
- Japanese: “マヌース”
- Japanese: “メイヌース”
- Japanese: “メイノース”
- Japanese: “メヌート”
- Latin: “Manutia”
- Latin: “Maynooth”
- Lithuanian: “Meinutas”
- Persian: “ماینوت”
- Persian: “منوث”
- Polish: “Maynooth”
- Portuguese: “Maynooth”
- Russian: “Мейнут”
- Scots: “Maynooth”
- Slovak: “Maynooth”
- Slovenian: “Maynooth”
- Spanish: “Maynooth”
- Swedish: “Maugh Naud”
- Swedish: “Maynooth”
- Ukrainian: “Мейнут”
- Urdu: “مینوتھ”
- Welsh: “Maigh Nuad”
- Welsh: “Maynooth”
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