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About Skerries

Skerries, Na Sceirí in Irish, is a town in County Dublin, 28 km north of Dublin. It stands on the R127, R128 and L1270. The map gives it 4,757 buildings and 164 named streets, with 149 places named on them in 71 kinds, and 116 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Population
10,743, as the map records it
Where
28 km north of Dublin
Position
53.5806° N, 6.1067° W
Roads
R127, R128, L1270, L1325, L1330, L1357, L14012 and L14013
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
4,757 buildings, 164 streets, 149 named places in 71 kinds
Skerries Harbour
Skerries Harbour·andrew mcmillan, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Skerries Beach,Co.Dublin,Ireland
Skerries Beach,Co.Dublin,Ireland·Geyo John, 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 116 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R127, R128, L1270, L1325, L1330, L1357, L14012 and L14013 running through Skerries. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 7 lines call at 43 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Skerries?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 28 km north of Dublin and 28 km from Dublin, on the R127, R128 and L1270.
How big is Skerries?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 4,757 buildings, 164 named streets and 149 named places, which by building count makes it the 27th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Skerries?
116 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Hamilton Obelisk, Skerries Beach and Skerries Harbour and Beach.
How do you get to Skerries?
7 bus and train lines call at 43 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.
4,757
buildings on the model
164
named streets
149
named places
71
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. 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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