Lusk
Lusk is a town in County Dublin, Ireland. Sometimes described as a village, Lusk is located about 20 km north of Dublin city centre. Lusk is in a townland and civil parish of the same name, in the barony of Balrothery East.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,810 residents
- Description: town in Ireland
- Also known as: “Lusk, County Dublin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lusk Round Tower and Rush and Lusk railway station.
Rush and Lusk railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jonjobaker, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rush and Lusk railway station serves the towns of Rush and Lusk in County Dublin, Ireland.
Baldongan Church
Ruins
Photo: Broderick Mark, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baldongan Church, also called Baldungan Castle, is an ancient ruined church and national monument near Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland. Baldongan Church is situated 4 km northeast of Lusk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rush and Loughshinny.
Rush
Town
Balbriggan is a seaside town at the north end of County Dublin, 32 km north of Dublin city centre. It was a small fishing village until 1780 then grew rapidly as a textile town, processing cotton and linen. Rush is situated 5 km east of Lusk.
Loughshinny
Village
Photo: Colm O hAonghusa, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loughshinny is a small coastal village in northern County Dublin, Ireland, between Skerries and Rush. Loughshinny's more famous landmarks are the Martello Tower on the nearby headland of Drumanagh and some unusual rock formations visible on some of the many coastal walks in the area. Loughshinny is situated 6 km northeast of Lusk.
Ballyboughal
Village
Photo: Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballyboughal or Ballyboghil is a village and district in central Fingal in County Dublin, near the Naul. The name means "the town of the staff", and a major relic, the Bachal Isu, was protected in this area until Strongbow moved it to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Ballyboughal is situated 7 km west of Lusk.
Lusk
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Fingal, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.52558° or 53° 31′ 32″ northLongitude
-6.16581° or 6° 9′ 57″ westPopulation
8,810Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)Open location code
9C5MGRGM+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 52260563OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2962769Wikidata ID
Q2571738
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Lusk” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lusk”
- Bulgarian: “Лъск”
- Catalan: “Lusk”
- Cebuano: “Lusk”
- Chinese: “卢斯克”
- Danish: “Lusk”
- Dutch: “Lusk”
- French: “Lusk”
- German: “Lusk”
- Irish: “Lusca”
- Italian: “Lusk”
- Japanese: “ラスク”
- Lithuanian: “Luskas”
- Polish: “Lusk”
- Russian: “Ласк”
- Spanish: “Lusk”
- Swedish: “Lusk”
- Turkish: “Lusk, Dublin”
- Turkish: “Lusk”
- Urdu: “لسک، ڈبلن”
- Urdu: “لسک”
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