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Louth
County Louth · Leinster

About Louth

Louth, Lú in Irish, is a village in County Louth, 69 km north of Dublin. The map gives it 945 buildings and 1 named street, with 4 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 108 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Where
69 km north of Dublin
Position
53.9508° N, 6.5403° W, 34 m above sea level
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
945 buildings, 1 street, 4 named places in 15 kinds
St. Mochta's House, double-vaulted shrine-chapel, assumed to be erected in the late 12th century. (See Tomás Ó Carragáin, Churches in Early Medieval Ireland, pp. 280–282.
St. Mochta's House, double-vaulted shrine-chapel, assumed to be erected in the late 12th century. (See Tomás Ó Carragáin, Churches in Early Medieval Ireland, pp. 280–282.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
South view of St. Mary's Priory, Louth.
South view of St. Mary's Priory, Louth.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Louth in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1148 to 1994. That is not a history of Louth, 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.

11481994Louth AbbeyLouth County Museum
The twelfth century
  • 1148Louth AbbeyHistoric churches · 360 m from the centre
  • the twelfth centurySt. Mochta's HouseHistoric churches · 430 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
The twentieth century

County Louth 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.

139,70362,739128,24018412022

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 108 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Louth; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Louth?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 69 km north of Dublin and 69 km from Dublin.
How big is Louth?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 945 buildings, 1 named street and 4 named places, which by building count makes it the 12th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Louth?
108 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St. John's Church, Louth Abbey and St. Mochta's House.
How do you get to Louth?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Louth grown or shrunk?
The census counted 128,240 people in the county in 1841 and 139,703 in 2022.
945
buildings on the model
1
named streets
4
named places
15
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 Q1056717). 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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