Editing Maynooth (section)

{{Short description|University town in County Kildare, Ireland}}
{{for|Maynooth, Ontario, Canada|Hastings Highlands}}
{{EngvarB|date=October 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox settlement
| settlement_type          = Town
| name                     = Maynooth
| native_name              = {{lang|ga|Maigh Nuad}}
| native_name_lang         = ga
| image_skyline            = Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland.jpg
| image_caption            = Clockwise from top: businesses in Maynooth, the Maynooth campus of the National University of Ireland, St. Patrick's College
| motto                    = ''Crom Abu''
| pushpin_map              = Ireland
| pushpin_label_position   = right
| pushpin_map_caption      = Location in Ireland
| coordinates              = {{coord|53.38157|-6.59098|dim:100000_region:IE|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = Ireland
| subdivision_type1        = [[Provinces of Ireland|Province]]
| subdivision_name1        = [[Leinster]]
| subdivision_type2        = [[Counties of Ireland|County]]
| subdivision_name2        = [[County Kildare]]
| elevation_m              = 48
| population_as_of         = [[2022 census of Ireland|2022]]
| population               = 17,259
| population_footnotes     = <ref name="2022census">{{cite web|url = https://data.cso.ie/table/F1015 | title = Census 2022 {{!}} Profile 1 - Population Distribution and Movement {{!}} F1015 - Population| website = data.cso.ie | accessdate = 29 July 2023 }}</ref>
| website                  = {{URL|www.maynooth.ie}}
| area_code_type           = [[Telephone numbers in the Republic of Ireland|Telephone area code]]
| area_code                = 01
| postal_code_type         = [[Eircode]]
| postal_code              = W23
}}

'''Maynooth''' ({{IPAc-en|m|ə|ˈ|n|uː|θ}}; {{langx|ga|Maigh Nuad}}) is a university town in north [[County Kildare]], Ireland. It is home to [[Maynooth University]] (part of the [[National University of Ireland]] and also known as the National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and [[St Patrick's College, Maynooth|St Patrick's College]], a [[Pontifical University]] and Ireland's sole Roman Catholic seminary. Maynooth is also the seat of the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholiccommunications.ie/ |title=The Catholic Communications Office |publisher=Catholiccommunications.ie |access-date=14 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204103615/http://www.catholiccommunications.ie/ |archive-date=4 February 2012 }}</ref> and holds the headquarters of Ireland's largest development charity, [[Trócaire]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trocaire.org/ |title=Trócaire &#124; Irish Charity Working for a Just World |publisher=Trocaire.org |access-date=14 February 2012 |archive-date=16 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116004437/http://www.trocaire.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Maynooth is located 24 kilometres (15 miles) west of central [[Dublin]].