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About Tallanstown

Tallanstown is a village in County Louth, 66 km north of Dublin. The map gives it 687 buildings and 0 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 92 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 18th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.

Where
66 km north of Dublin
Position
53.9196° N, 6.5478° W
Governed
Louth County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
687 buildings, 0 streets, 2 named places in 13 kinds
Waste water treatment works north of Tallanstown
Waste water treatment works north of Tallanstown·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Traditional long house at Rathbrist Cottages
Traditional long house at Rathbrist Cottages·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Tallanstown in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1148 to 1780. That is not a history of Tallanstown, 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.

11481780Louth AbbeySaint Peter's Roman Catholic
The twelfth century
  • 1148Louth AbbeyHistoric churches · 3.8 km from the centre
  • the twelfth centurySt. Mochta's HouseHistoric churches · 3.8 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
The eighteenth 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 92 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Tallanstown; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Tallanstown?
In County Louth, in the province of Leinster, 66 km north of Dublin and 66 km from Dublin.
How big is Tallanstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 687 buildings, 0 named streets and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 18th largest of the 29 settlements this site covers in County Louth.
What is there to see in Tallanstown?
92 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Louth Hall, Sunday Well and Site of Knock Abbey.
How do you get to Tallanstown?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 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.
687
buildings on the model
0
named streets
2
named places
13
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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