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About Dromin

Dromin, Droim Ing in Irish, is a village in County Louth, 56 km north of Dublin. It stands on the M1, R132 and R170. The map gives it 398 buildings and 7 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 65 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 25th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Where
56 km north of Dublin
Position
53.8439° N, 6.4363° W
Roads
M1, R132, R170 and L2254
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
398 buildings, 7 streets, 3 named places in 18 kinds
Motte at Dromin, Co. Louth Anglo-Norman motte situated at the west of St. Joseph's Church.
Motte at Dromin, Co. Louth Anglo-Norman motte situated at the west of St. Joseph's Church.·Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church and graveyard at Richardstown, Co. Louth
Church and graveyard at Richardstown, Co. Louth·Kieran Campbell, 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 65 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M1, R132, R170 and L2254 running through Dromin.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Dromin?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 56 km north of Dublin and 56 km from Dublin, on the M1, R132 and R170.
How big is Dromin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 398 buildings, 7 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 25th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Dromin?
65 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rathescar Lakeside Walk, Rathescar Lake and Mullacurry Race Course.
How do you get to Dromin?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the M1 and R132.
Has County Louth grown or shrunk?
The census counted 128,240 people in the county in 1841 and 139,703 in 2022.
398
buildings on the model
7
named streets
3
named places
18
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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