Howth
Howth is a small seaside town historically in County Dublin, 14 km northeast of Dublin 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,280 residents
- Description: suburb of Dublin, Ireland
- Also known as: “Ben of Howth”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Howth Castle and Howth.
Howth Castle
Castle
Photo: O’Dea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Howth Castle is a historic dwelling, originally of Norman origin, that lies by the village of Howth, County Dublin, Ireland; it is sited within a substantial estate.
Howth
Railway station
Photo: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Howth station, is a railway station in Fingal, Ireland that serves Howth village and one side of Howth Head.
Ben of Howth
Peak
Photo: JP, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Ben of Howth is a hilly area on Howth Head, adjacent to the 171 metre high Black Linn, the peninsula's highest point.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sutton and Baldoyle.
Sutton
Village
Photo: Raymond Okonski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sutton is a residential suburb on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. It occupies the tombolo which links Howth Head to the mainland, some of the lower slopes of Howth Hill, and a little of the adjacent coasts.
Baldoyle
Suburb
Photo: Colm O hAonghusa, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Baldoyle is a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland, it was developed from a former fishing village. Baldoyle is also a civil parish in the barony of Coolock within the traditional County Dublin. Baldoyle is situated 4½ km west of Howth.
Howth
- Categories: suburb and locality
- Location: Fingal, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.3858° or 53° 23′ 9″ northLongitude
-6.0651° or 6° 3′ 54″ westPopulation
8,280Elevation
171 metres (561 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE HOWOpen location code
9C5M9WPM+8XOpenStreetMap ID
node 52253160OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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: “Binn Éadair”
- Galician: “Howth”
- German: “Ben of Howth”
- German: “Howth”
- Hebrew: “האות‘”
- Hindi: “हाउथ”
- Indonesian: “Binn Eadair”
- Indonesian: “Binn Éadair”
- Indonesian: “Howth”
- Irish: “Binn Éadair”
- Italian: “Howth”
- Japanese: “ハウス”
- Japanese: “ホウス”
- Korean: “호스”
- Lithuanian: “Hautas”
- Manx: “Binn Éadair”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Howth Head”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Howth”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Howth”
- Norwegian: “Howth”
- Persian: “هوث (ایرلند)”
- Persian: “هوث”
- Polish: “Howth”
- Portuguese: “Howth”
- Russian: “Хаут”
- Russian: “Хоут”
- Scots: “Howth”
- Slovak: “Howth”
- Spanish: “Howth”
- Swedish: “Howth”
- Ukrainian: “Гаут”
- Ukrainian: “Гоут”
- Urdu: “ہوتھ”
- Welsh: “Howth”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Howth”. Photo: Lkcl it, CC BY-SA 3.0.