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About Philipstown

Philipstown is a village in County Louth, 54 km north of Dublin. It stands on the L2254 and L2255. The map gives it 485 buildings and 2 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 71 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Where
54 km north of Dublin
Position
53.8230° N, 6.4708° W
Roads
L2254 and L2255
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
485 buildings, 2 streets, 10 named places in 19 kinds

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 71 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L2254 and L2255 running through Philipstown.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Kevin's NS Philipstown.

Questions people ask

Where is Philipstown?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 54 km north of Dublin and 54 km from Dublin, on the L2254 and L2255.
How big is Philipstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 485 buildings, 2 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Philipstown?
71 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Mullacurry Race Course, Trinity Well and Rathescar Lakeside Walk.
How do you get to Philipstown?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the L2254 and L2255.
Has County Louth grown or shrunk?
The census counted 128,240 people in the county in 1841 and 139,703 in 2022.
485
buildings on the model
2
named streets
10
named places
19
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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