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About Clogherhead

Clogherhead, Ceann Chlochair in Irish, is a village in County Louth, 49 km north of Dublin. It stands on the L6281. The map gives it 1,643 buildings and 8 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 32 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Where
49 km north of Dublin
Position
53.7917° N, 6.2391° W
Roads
L6281
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,643 buildings, 8 streets, 14 named places in 23 kinds
View from atop Clogherhead, overlooking Port Oreil
View from atop Clogherhead, overlooking Port Oreil·LughaidhSoBased, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View of the sea from Clogherhead, Louth
View of the sea from Clogherhead, Louth·LughaidhSoBased, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 32 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L6281 running through Clogherhead. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Callystown National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Clogherhead?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 49 km north of Dublin and 49 km from Dublin, on the L6281.
How big is Clogherhead?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,643 buildings, 8 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 8th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Clogherhead?
32 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Port Oriel, Queen of the sea and Glebe East Church Ruin.
How do you get to Clogherhead?
1 bus and train line calls at 6 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.
1,643
buildings on the model
8
named streets
14
named places
23
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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