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About Balbriggan

Balbriggan, Baile Brigín in Irish, is a town in County Dublin, 29 km north of Dublin, with 21,722 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the M1, R122 and R127. The map gives it 8,122 buildings and 167 named streets, with 145 places named on them in 70 kinds, and 109 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Population
21,722 at the 2016 census
Where
29 km north of Dublin
Position
53.6085° N, 6.1829° W, 6 m above sea level
Roads
M1, R122, R127, R132, L1125, L1130, L1135 and L1205
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
8,122 buildings, 167 streets, 145 named places in 70 kinds
View Of The Bracken River As Seen From Bridge Street - Balbriggan
View Of The Bracken River As Seen From Bridge Street - Balbriggan·William Murphy, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Balbriggan Harbour Bridge (Railway Bridge)
Balbriggan Harbour Bridge (Railway Bridge)·William Murphy, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Dublin 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.

1,458,154372,77318412022

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 109 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M1, R122, R127, R132, L1125, L1130, L1135 and L1205 running through Balbriggan. 1 car park on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 11 lines call at 57 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

10 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Balbriggan?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 29 km north of Dublin and 29 km from Dublin, on the M1, R122 and R127.
How big is Balbriggan?
21,722 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 8,122 buildings and 167 named streets.
What is there to see in Balbriggan?
109 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Citizens Information Centre, Balbriggan Tourist Office and Quay Street Playground.
How do you get to Balbriggan?
11 bus and train lines call at 57 stops here in the published timetable, run by Balbriggan Express, Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
8,122
buildings on the model
167
named streets
145
named places
70
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 Q804704). 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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