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About Howth

Howth, Binn Éadair in Irish, is a town in County Dublin, 14 km east of Dublin, with 8,706 people at the 2002 census. It stands on the R105. The map gives it 2,564 buildings and 77 named streets, with 135 places named on them in 67 kinds, and 203 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 35th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Population
8,706 at the 2002 census
Where
14 km east of Dublin
Position
53.3858° N, 6.0651° W, 171 m above sea level
Roads
R105
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,564 buildings, 77 streets, 135 named places in 67 kinds
A view of St Mary’s Abbey, Howth.
A view of St Mary’s Abbey, Howth.·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Howth in order

7 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1235 to 2020. That is not a history of Howth, 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.

12352020Howth CastleCasino Model Railway Museum
The thirteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

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 203 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R105 running through Howth. 1 car park on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 8 lines call at 83 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Howth Primary School, Scoil Mhuire.

Questions people ask

Where is Howth?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 14 km east of Dublin and 14 km from Dublin, on the R105.
How big is Howth?
8,706 people at the 2002 census. On the map it is 2,564 buildings and 77 named streets.
What is there to see in Howth?
203 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St Mary's Abbey, Ye Olde Hurdy-Gurdy (Museum of Vintage Radio) and Balscadden Beach.
How do you get to Howth?
8 bus and train lines call at 83 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Go-Ahead Ireland and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. 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.
2,564
buildings on the model
77
named streets
135
named places
67
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 Q434165). 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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