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About Dunleer

Dunleer, Dún Léire in Irish, is a town in County Louth, 54 km north of Dublin, with 1,449 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the M1, R132 and R169. The map gives it 2,477 buildings and 10 named streets, with 17 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 66 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Population
1,449 at the 2006 census
Where
54 km north of Dublin
Position
53.8316° N, 6.3951° W, 39 m above sea level
Roads
M1, R132, R169, L2226 and L2254
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,477 buildings, 10 streets, 17 named places in 23 kinds
Rokeby Hall and Conservatory
Rokeby Hall and Conservatory·MollyCrilly, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Four storey towerhouse south of Dunleer, photographed by Mike Searle
Four storey towerhouse south of Dunleer, photographed by Mike Searle·Mike Searle, 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 66 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M1, R132, R169, L2226 and L2254 running through Dunleer.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Colmcille National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Dunleer?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 54 km north of Dublin and 54 km from Dublin, on the M1, R132 and R169.
How big is Dunleer?
1,449 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 2,477 buildings and 10 named streets.
What is there to see in Dunleer?
66 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rathescar Lakeside Walk, Rathescar Lake and Rathescar Lakeside Walk.
How do you get to Dunleer?
2 bus and train lines call at 9 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.
2,477
buildings on the model
10
named streets
17
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 (item Q2669890). 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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