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About Lusk

Lusk, Lusca in Irish, is a town in County Dublin, 21 km north of Dublin. It stands on the M1, R127 and R128. The map gives it 5,446 buildings and 174 named streets, with 139 places named on them in 66 kinds, and 189 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 26th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Population
8,806, as the map records it
Where
21 km north of Dublin
Position
53.5256° N, 6.1658° W, 25 m above sea level
Roads
M1, R127, R128, L1165, L1185, L1250, L1400 and L1401
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
5,446 buildings, 174 streets, 139 named places in 66 kinds
Lusk Round Tower Church
Lusk Round Tower Church·Cathalgibbons, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church and Round Tower at Lusk, OS grid O2154 :: Geograph Ireland. The Round Tower is the only surviving monument of the Early Christian period monastic foundation.
Church and Round Tower at Lusk, OS grid O2154 :: Geograph Ireland. The Round Tower is the only surviving monument of the Early Christian period monastic foundation.·Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Lusk in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1200 to 2020. That is not a history of Lusk, 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.

12002020Swords CastleCasino Model Railway Museum
The twelfth century
  • 1200Swords CastleCastles · 8.1 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryBaldongan ChurchRuins · 3.9 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
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 189 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M1, R127, R128, L1165, L1185, L1250, L1400 and L1401 running through Lusk. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 9 lines call at 49 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

5 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Lusk?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 21 km north of Dublin and 21 km from Dublin, on the M1, R127 and R128.
How big is Lusk?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 5,446 buildings, 174 named streets and 139 named places, which by building count makes it the 26th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Lusk?
189 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Saint MacCulin's Tower, Lusk Tidy Towns and Orlynn Park.
How do you get to Lusk?
9 bus and train lines call at 49 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Go-Ahead Ireland. 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.
5,446
buildings on the model
174
named streets
139
named places
66
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 Q2571738). 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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