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Things to do in Swords

Find places that fit your time and your plans. 42 of them are in Swords itself and 295 more within twelve kilometres, because the castle outside the village is usually the reason to go to the village.

96 places

Places to explore in pictures

More places to explore

Showing 96 of 337 places, with photographs first. Every kind of place in Swords lists the rest.

42
in Swords
295
within 12 km
90
outdoors
11
indoors
47
for children

Put a day together

A day on foot in Swords: 9 stops the map records, joined in the shortest order that walks them all, 7.8 km in total.

Swords in a day

By kind

Events during your visit

Checked against the organiser's own pages. Pick a date on the events page and it answers for that day rather than for the month.

Everything on in Swords

While you are there

122 places to eat and 15 places to stay on the map in Swords, and 85 bus and train lines calling here.

Places to eat·Swords on the map·Getting to Swords

Questions people ask

What is there to do in Swords?
42 places inside Swords and 295 more within twelve kilometres, mostly parks, monuments and gardens.
How is indoors or outdoors decided?
By what kind of place each one is: a museum is indoors, a park is not, a castle is some of each. OpenStreetMap carries an indoor tag on about one visitor place in three hundred, so a filter built on the tag would hide almost everything. This is a rule about kinds of place, not a claim about any one of them.
Does with kids mean it is suitable for my child?
No. It means the kind of place children generally do: playgrounds, beaches, parks, zoos, museums. The map records an age limit on a handful of places in the country, so nothing here claims a place suits a particular age.
What does it cost, and when is it open?
This page does not say. OpenStreetMap records a fee on about one visitor place in sixty and opening hours on one in fifty, so stating either would mean guessing for almost everything. Each place's own page shows what the map does hold and links to the operator.
How do you get to Swords?
85 bus and train lines call at a stop in Swords in the published timetable, run by Aircoach, Ashbourne Connect and Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus. Which of them runs on the day you are going, and how long it takes from where you are starting, is worked out on the Getting to Swords page.

Places are OpenStreetMap records and each links to the one it came from. Indoors, outdoors and with kids are worked out from what kind of place a thing is, not from tags on it, because the tags exist on almost none of them. Visit lengths are a default for each kind. Distances are straight lines from the centre of Swords.