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About Knockbridge

Knockbridge, Droichead an Chnoic in Irish, is a village in County Louth, 71 km north of Dublin. It stands on the R171. The map gives it 853 buildings and 6 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 90 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 14th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Where
71 km north of Dublin
Position
53.9714° N, 6.4869° W, 42 m above sea level
Roads
R171
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
853 buildings, 6 streets, 13 named places in 27 kinds
The offices of J P Castle, Builders, alongside the R171 between Knockbridge and Dunbin
The offices of J P Castle, Builders, alongside the R171 between Knockbridge and Dunbin·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cropland north of the R171 near the village of Knockbridge
Cropland north of the R171 near the village of Knockbridge·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Knockbridge in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1148 to 1994. That is not a history of Knockbridge, 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 · 4.2 km from the centre
  • the twelfth centurySt. Mochta's HouseHistoric churches · 4.3 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth 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 90 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R171 running through Knockbridge.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St Mary's National School, Knockbridge.

Questions people ask

Where is Knockbridge?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 71 km north of Dublin and 71 km from Dublin, on the R171.
How big is Knockbridge?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 853 buildings, 6 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 14th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Knockbridge?
90 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballybarrack Ogham Stone, Newtown Fort and Clochafarmore.
How do you get to Knockbridge?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Cavan Monaghan.
Has County Louth grown or shrunk?
The census counted 128,240 people in the county in 1841 and 139,703 in 2022.
853
buildings on the model
6
named streets
13
named places
27
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 Q3776364). 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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