Howth

Howth is a small seaside town historically in , 14 km northeast of city centre. It's on a "tombola" peninsula - once an island, it became connected to the mainland by a sandy isthmus, which is now the residential area of Sutton.
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  • Type: Town with 8,280 residents
  • Description: suburb of Dublin, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Ben of Howth”, “Binn Eadair”, “Howth Head”, “Гаут”, “Хаут”, and “ハウス”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Howth Castle and Howth.

Castle
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is a historic dwelling, based on 14th and…

Railway station
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station is a railway station in , Ireland…

Peak
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The is a hilly area on Howth Head…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sutton and Baldoyle.

Village
Photo: Raymond Okonski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a residential suburb on the Northside of , .

Suburb
Photo: Colm O hAonghusa, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a coastal suburb of , , it was developed from a former fishing village. is situated 4½ km west of Howth.

Howth

Latitude
53.3858° or 53° 23′ 9″ north
Longitude
-6.0651° or 6° 3′ 54″ west
Population
8,280
Elevation
171 metres (561 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IE HOW
Open location code
9C5M9WPM+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52253160
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2963722
Wiki­data ID
Q434165
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Howth” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Howth”
  • Bulgarian: “Хоут”
  • Catalan: “Howth”
  • Cebuano: “Howth”
  • Chinese: “霍斯 (愛爾蘭)”
  • Chinese: “霍斯”
  • Danish: “Howth”
  • Dutch: “Howth”
  • Finnish: “Howth”
  • French: “Howth”
  • Galician: “Howth”
  • German: “Howth”
  • Hebrew: “האות‘”
  • Hindi: “हाउथ”
  • Indonesian: “Howth”
  • Irish: “Binn Éadair”
  • Italian: “Howth”
  • Japanese: “ホウス”
  • Korean: “호스”
  • Lithuanian: “Hautas”
  • Manx: “Binn Éadair”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Howth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Howth”
  • Norwegian: “Howth”
  • Persian: “هوث (ایرلند)”
  • Persian: “هوث”
  • Polish: “Howth”
  • Portuguese: “Howth”
  • Russian: “Хоут”
  • Scots: “Howth”
  • Slovak: “Howth”
  • Spanish: “Howth”
  • Swedish: “Howth”
  • Ukrainian: “Гоут”
  • Urdu: “ہوتھ”
  • Welsh: “Howth”
  • “Howth”

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