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About Sandpit

Sandpit is a village in County Louth, 47 km north of Dublin. It stands on the L2278, L2308 and L6285. The map gives it 668 buildings and 5 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 56 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 19th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Where
47 km north of Dublin
Position
53.7729° N, 6.3076° W
Roads
L2278, L2308, L6285 and L6303
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
668 buildings, 5 streets, 5 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 56 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L2278, L2308, L6285 and L6303 running through Sandpit.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Náisiúnta Muire gan Smál.

Questions people ask

Where is Sandpit?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 47 km north of Dublin and 47 km from Dublin, on the L2278, L2308 and L6285.
How big is Sandpit?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 668 buildings, 5 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 19th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Sandpit?
56 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Sandpit, Kilslaughtery Church Ruin and Carstown House.
How do you get to Sandpit?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the L2278 and L2308.
Has County Louth grown or shrunk?
The census counted 128,240 people in the county in 1841 and 139,703 in 2022.
668
buildings on the model
5
named streets
5
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 (item Q7416517). 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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