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About Carlingford

Carlingford, Cairlinn in Irish, is a town in County Louth, 77 km north of Dublin. It stands on the A2, R173 and R176. The map gives it 2,315 buildings and 35 named streets, with 81 places named on them in 49 kinds, and 124 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Population
1,528, as the map records it
Where
77 km north of Dublin
Position
54.0411° N, 6.1865° W, 1 m above sea level
Area
0.92 km²
Roads
A2, R173 and R176
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,315 buildings, 35 streets, 81 named places in 49 kinds
Water trampolining at the entrance to Carlingford Harbour
Water trampolining at the entrance to Carlingford Harbour·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Shops in Market Street, Carlingford
Shops in Market Street, Carlingford·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 124 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the A2, R173 and R176 running through Carlingford.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 8 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 Carlingford?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 77 km north of Dublin and 77 km from Dublin, on the A2, R173 and R176.
How big is Carlingford?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,315 buildings, 35 named streets and 81 named places, which by building count makes it the 7th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Carlingford?
124 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Taaffe's Castle, Mint and Carlingford Ogham Stone.
How do you get to Carlingford?
3 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Pat Keenan Coach Hire.
Has County Louth grown or shrunk?
The census counted 128,240 people in the county in 1841 and 139,703 in 2022.
2,315
buildings on the model
35
named streets
81
named places
49
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 Q2669915). 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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