Loughshinny
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Drumanagh and Drumanagh Martello Tower.
Drumanagh
Archaeological site
Drumanagh is a headland near the village of Loughshinny, in the north east of County Dublin, Ireland. It features an early 19th-century Martello tower and a large Iron Age promontory fort which has produced Roman artefacts.
Kenure
Pitch
Kenure is a cricket ground in Rush, Fingal in Ireland. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1997, when Ireland Under-23s Women played New South Wales Schools Women.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rush and Lusk.
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 2½ km south of Loughshinny.
Lusk
Town
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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. Lusk is situated 6 km southwest of Loughshinny.
Balrothery
Village
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Balrothery is a village and civil parish located in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland. The town has historically been called Baile Ruairí in Irish. The 2022 census population for Balrothery was 2,282. Balrothery is situated 8 km northwest of Loughshinny.
Loughshinny
- Type: Village with 670 residents
- Description: small village in Fingal (in County Dublin), Ireland
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Fingal, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.54663° or 53° 32′ 48″ northLongitude
-6.08636° or 6° 5′ 11″ westPopulation
670Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
9C5MGWW7+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 52250561OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3230860Wikidata ID
Q4267568
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Loughshinny” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Loughshinny”
- Bulgarian: “Лоугхшинй”
- Catalan: “Loughshinny”
- Cebuano: “Loughshinny”
- Chinese: “洛赫欣尼”
- Dutch: “Loughshinny”
- German: “Loughshinny”
- Irish: “Loch Sionnach”
- Irish: “Loch Sionnaigh”
- Italian: “Loughshinny”
- Russian: “Лохшинни”
- Spanish: “Loughshinny”
- Swedish: “Loughshinny”
- “Loughshinny”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Loughshinny”. Photo: Colm O hAonghusa, CC BY-SA 2.0.