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About Collon

Collon, Collann in Irish, is a village in County Louth, 50 km north of Dublin. It stands on the N2, R168 and L2290. The map gives it 924 buildings and 8 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 130 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Where
50 km north of Dublin
Position
53.7777° N, 6.4863° W
Roads
N2, R168 and L2290
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
924 buildings, 8 streets, 14 named places in 26 kinds
Interior of parish church, Collon, Co. Louth
Interior of parish church, Collon, Co. Louth·Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church of Ireland Collon Louth
Church of Ireland Collon Louth·Donal Cassidy, 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 130 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N2, R168 and L2290 running through Collon.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 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 Collon?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 50 km north of Dublin and 50 km from Dublin, on the N2, R168 and L2290.
How big is Collon?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 924 buildings, 8 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Collon?
130 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Toberdillen, Black Hill and Irish Military Museum And Park.
How do you get to Collon?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Collins Coaches and Royal Breffni Tours.
Has County Louth grown or shrunk?
The census counted 128,240 people in the county in 1841 and 139,703 in 2022.
924
buildings on the model
8
named streets
14
named places
26
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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