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Johnstown, County Kildare

Village in County Kildare, Ireland

Summary

Village in County Kildare, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Johnstown
native_name	Baile Eoin
native_name_lang	ga
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	Main Street, Johnstown, Co. Kildare.jpg
image_caption	Main Street, Johnstown
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Leinster
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	County Kildare
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2022
population_footnotes
population_total	1320
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	WET
utc_offset1	+0
timezone1_DST	IST (WEST)
utc_offset1_DST	-1
coordinates
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info

Johnstown () is a village in County Kildare, Ireland. It is located 2 km north of Naas just off the N7 at junction 8. It is approximately 25 km from Dublin city centre, and is a home for commuters working in Dublin and Naas. Most of the housing was built after 1990.

The village was set out as a planned settlement. It is in a civil parish of the same name.

The main street was a part of the old main road southwest from Dublin towards Cork and Limerick. The Johnstown Inn was a busy coaching stop until the 19th century, and outside it the Cork mail coach was stopped and burned at the start of the 1798 rebellion. It had a post office that closed in the 1920s. Its only shop, a Centra, closed in June 2025.

The village still has the ruins of the medieval St John's church that became a ruin after 1500 under the Tudor seizure of church property. The church was a satellite of St. John's (Hospitaller) Priory in Kilmainham, Dublin. The church is famous for the grave of the Earl of Mayo, the viceroy, who was killed in India in 1872.

The main road eventually bypassed Johnstown in 1964 when the Naas dual carriageway was finished. This was enlarged into the 6-lane N7 road from Dublin to Johnstown, after which it reduces to the 4-lane M7 motorway that runs towards Limerick.

References

(August 2023). "Census 2022 - F1015 Population". [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland).
"Baile Eoin/Johnstown".
"Census Interactive Map - Housing - Towns: Johnstown". Central Statistics Office.
Darley, Gillian. (1975). "Villages of vision". Architectural Press.
(3 June 2025). "Johnstown Centra to shut this week". Kildare Nationalist.
(19 June 2025). "Bin needed in this Kildare village after shop closes".

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