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About Swords

Swords, Sord in Irish, is a town in County Dublin, 13 km north of Dublin, with 40,776 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the M1, R106 and R108. The map gives it 26,993 buildings and 644 named streets, with 650 places named on them in 168 kinds, and 337 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Population
40,776 at the 2022 census
Where
13 km north of Dublin
Position
53.4595° N, 6.2192° W, 3 m above sea level
Area
11.35 km²
Roads
M1, R106, R108, R125, R126, R132, R836 and L12142
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Ozoir-la-Ferrière, France
On the model
26,993 buildings, 644 streets, 650 named places in 168 kinds
Swords Castle (Near Dublin Airport)
Swords Castle (Near Dublin Airport)·William Murphy, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street, Swords, Co. Dublin (19821557415)
Main Street, Swords, Co. Dublin (19821557415)·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Swords in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1795 to 2020. That is not a history of Swords, 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.

17952020National Botanic GardensCasino Model Railway Museum
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth 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 337 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M1, R106, R108, R125, R126, R132, R836 and L12142 running through Swords. 48 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

85 lines call at 193 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

18 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Swords?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 13 km north of Dublin and 13 km from Dublin, on the M1, R106 and R108.
How big is Swords?
40,776 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 26,993 buildings and 644 named streets.
What is there to see in Swords?
337 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Swords Town Park, Swords Castle and Castle Park.
How do you get to Swords?
85 bus and train lines call at 193 stops here in the published timetable, run by Aircoach, Ashbourne Connect and Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
26,993
buildings on the model
644
named streets
650
named places
168
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 Q987745). 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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