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About Ballymascanlan

Ballymascanlan, Baile Mhic Scanláin in Irish, is a village in County Louth, 76 km north of Dublin. It stands on the R132 and R173. The map gives it 758 buildings and 4 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 134 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Where
76 km north of Dublin
Position
54.0283° N, 6.3508° W
Roads
R132 and R173
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
758 buildings, 4 streets, 10 named places in 24 kinds
Between Dundalk and Greenore
Between Dundalk and Greenore·Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Approaching the Victorian coach house at Ballymascallon Hotel
Approaching the Victorian coach house at Ballymascallon Hotel·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 134 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R132 and R173 running through Ballymascanlan.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 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 Ballymascanlan?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 76 km north of Dublin and 76 km from Dublin, on the R132 and R173.
How big is Ballymascanlan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 758 buildings, 4 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Ballymascanlan?
134 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Dolmen, Proleek Dolmen and Trumpet Hill.
How do you get to Ballymascanlan?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 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.
758
buildings on the model
4
named streets
10
named places
24
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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