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About Blackrock

Blackrock, Na Creagacha Dubha in Irish, is a village in County Louth, 68 km north of Dublin. It stands on the R132, R172 and L3161. The map gives it 3,568 buildings and 77 named streets, with 59 places named on them in 46 kinds, and 73 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Where
68 km north of Dublin
Position
53.9621° N, 6.3664° W
Roads
R132, R172, L3161 and L7159
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
3,568 buildings, 77 streets, 59 named places in 46 kinds
Blackrock beach and village, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Blackrock beach and village, Dundalk, Co. Louth·DSexton, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bazaar, Blackrock, Co. Louth (32741393035)
Bazaar, Blackrock, Co. Louth (32741393035)·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Blackrock 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 Blackrock, 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 · 12 km from the centre
  • the twelfth centurySt. Mochta's HouseHistoric churches · 12 km 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 73 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R132, R172, L3161 and L7159 running through Blackrock. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 19 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Saint Oliver Plunkett National School and St. Francis National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Blackrock?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 68 km north of Dublin and 68 km from Dublin, on the R132, R172 and L3161.
How big is Blackrock?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,568 buildings, 77 named streets and 59 named places, which by building count makes it the 4th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Blackrock?
73 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The "MARY STODDART" TRAGEDY and the BLACKROCK LIFEBOAT, Blackrock Park and Blackrock Park's Avenue of Lime Trees & Woodland.
How do you get to Blackrock?
3 bus and train lines call at 19 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Halpenny Travel.
Has County Louth grown or shrunk?
The census counted 128,240 people in the county in 1841 and 139,703 in 2022.
3,568
buildings on the model
77
named streets
59
named places
46
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 Q4088432). 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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