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About Castlebellingham

Castlebellingham, Baile an Ghearlánaigh in Irish, is a village in County Louth, 61 km north of Dublin, with 816 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R166. The map gives it 704 buildings and 2 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 57 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Population
816 at the 2006 census
Where
61 km north of Dublin
Position
53.8971° N, 6.3891° W
Roads
R166
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
704 buildings, 2 streets, 12 named places in 22 kinds
Greenmount motte and bailey, Co. Louth geograph.org.uk 1772463
Greenmount motte and bailey, Co. Louth geograph.org.uk 1772463·Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Entrance to St Mary's Church
Entrance to St Mary's Church·Graham Hogg, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castlebellingham 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 Castlebellingham, 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 57 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R166 running through Castlebellingham.

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 Castlebellingham?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 61 km north of Dublin and 61 km from Dublin, on the R166.
How big is Castlebellingham?
816 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 704 buildings and 2 named streets.
What is there to see in Castlebellingham?
57 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Drummeenagh Hill, Greenmount Motte and Annagassan.
How do you get to Castlebellingham?
3 bus and train lines call at 8 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.
704
buildings on the model
2
named streets
12
named places
22
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 Q5050462). 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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