Swords
Swords is a town 12 km north of Dublin, with a population in 2022 of 41,000. It's historically in County Dublin, which in 1994 was divided, with Swords becoming the county town of Fingal. Dublin Airport is within the town limits and much of Swords is industrial or commuterland for the city, but with an ancient castle and Round Tower.
- Type: Town with 40,800 residents
- Description: town near Dublin in Ireland
- Also known as: “Sord Chaluim Chille”, “Svordsas”, “Swords i Dublin”, “Swords, County Dublin”, “Swords, County of Dublin”, “Swords, Dublin”, and “Swords, Ireland”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Swords Castle and Swords Round Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Malahide.
Swords
- Categories: suburb and locality
- Location: Fingal, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.4595° or 53° 27′ 34″ north
Longitude
-6.2192° or 6° 13′ 9″ west
Population
40,800
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IE SWO
Open location code
9C5MFQ5J+Q8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Swords” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Swords”
- Basque: “Swords”
- Belarusian: “Сордс”
- Breton: “Sord Cholm Cille”
- Breton: “Sord”
- Bulgarian: “Суордс”
- Catalan: “Swords”
- Cebuano: “Swords”
- Chinese: “斯沃司”
- Chinese: “索兹”
- Chinese: “索茲”
- Cornish: “Sord Cholm Cille”
- Czech: “Swords”
- Danish: “Swords”
- Dutch: “Swords”
- French: “Swords”
- Galician: “Swords”
- German: “Swords”
- Greek: “Σορντς”
- Hebrew: “סוורדס”
- Indonesian: “Swords”
- Irish: “Sord”
- Italian: “Swords”
- Japanese: “スウォーズ”
- Korean: “스워즈”
- Latvian: “Svordsa”
- Lithuanian: “Sordsas”
- Manx: “Sord Cholm Cille”
- Northern Frisian: “Swords”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Swords”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Swords”
- Norwegian: “Swords”
- Persian: “اسوردز”
- Polish: “Swords”
- Portuguese: “Swords”
- Russian: “Сордс”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sord Cholm Cille”
- Serbian: “Svords”
- Serbian: “Свордс”
- Serbian: “Сордс”
- Slovak: “Swords”
- Slovenian: “Swords”
- Spanish: “Swords”
- Swedish: “Swords”
- Tatar: “Сордс”
- Thai: “ซอดส์”
- Ukrainian: “Сордз”
- Urdu: “سورڈز، ڈبلن”
- Urdu: “سورڈز”
- Welsh: “Sord Cholm Cille”
- Welsh: “Sord Cholmcille”
- Welsh: “Sord”
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