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About Dundalk

Dundalk, Dún Dealgan in Irish, is a town in County Louth, 73 km north of Dublin, with 39,004 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the M1, N52 and R132. The map gives it 18,529 buildings and 263 named streets, with 472 places named on them in 138 kinds, and 104 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Population
39,004 at the 2016 census
Where
73 km north of Dublin
Position
54.0046° N, 6.4009° W, 1 m above sea level
Area
24.68 km²
Roads
M1, N52, R132, R171, R172, R177, R178 and R215
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
Founded
3500
On the model
18,529 buildings, 263 streets, 472 named places in 138 kinds
Dundalk, Kelly Monument.
Dundalk, Kelly Monument.·GilPe, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Any knives need sharpening, Mrs? (8682035967)
Any knives need sharpening, Mrs? (8682035967)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Dundalk in order

7 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1148 to 1994. That is not a history of Dundalk, 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 · 11 km from the centre
  • the twelfth centurySt. Mochta's HouseHistoric churches · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth 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 104 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M1, N52, R132, R171, R172, R177, R178 and R215 running through Dundalk. 48 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 28 lines call at 108 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

15 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Dundalk?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 73 km north of Dublin and 73 km from Dublin, on the M1, N52 and R132.
How big is Dundalk?
39,004 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 18,529 buildings and 263 named streets.
What is there to see in Dundalk?
104 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Bombing 1975, Maid of Erin and Kellys Monument.
How do you get to Dundalk?
28 bus and train lines call at 108 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, EMC Coaches Limited and Halpenny Travel. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Louth grown or shrunk?
The census counted 128,240 people in the county in 1841 and 139,703 in 2022.
18,529
buildings on the model
263
named streets
472
named places
138
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 Q204956). 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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