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About Baltray

Baltray, Baile Trá in Irish, is a village in County Louth, 43 km north of Dublin. The map gives it 415 buildings and 0 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 46 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Where
43 km north of Dublin
Position
53.7372° N, 6.2672° W
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
415 buildings, 0 streets, 3 named places in 18 kinds
Guys on the beach Drogheda, Ireland Black and white street photography (24793218125)
Guys on the beach Drogheda, Ireland Black and white street photography (24793218125)·Giuseppe Milo from Lisbon, Portugal, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Mornington (Co. Meath): Maiden Tower
Mornington (Co. Meath): Maiden Tower·Bananenfalter, CC0 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 46 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

3 lines call 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 Baltray?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 43 km north of Dublin and 43 km from Dublin.
How big is Baltray?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 415 buildings, 0 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 24th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Baltray?
46 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Beaulieu House and Gardens, Monastery (site of) and Termonfeckin Castle.
How do you get to Baltray?
3 bus and train lines call 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.
415
buildings on the model
0
named streets
3
named places
18
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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