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Carlingford

Cairlinn

Carlingford is a town in Louth. Explore its recorded names and geographic context.

Recorded locationCarlingford54.03815° N · 6.18437° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ieOpen in OpenStreetMap ↗

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Cairlinn · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Carlingford · English · main form

Geographic information

Place type
Town
County
Louth
Coordinates
54.03815, -6.18437
Logainm ID
1411628 ↗

Population over time

Carlingford — Census 2016 settlement footprint

Population within 2016 settlement boundaries

1,474people · 2022

05001K1.5K2K 2016: 1,445 people20162022: 1,474 people2022

Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.

View population figures
Carlingford — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Census yearPopulation
20161,445
20221,474

Source: CSO Census 2022 Profile 1 — Appendix Table 1: Census 2022 De Facto Population for the 2016 Towns · Supporting source 1. CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-25.

Other census areas and years

These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.

Carlingford, Louth

Published census settlement populations

1,445people · 2016

Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.

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Carlingford, Louth — census population
Census yearPopulation
20111,045
20161,445

Source: CSO E2016 — Population and Actual and Percentage Change 2011 to 2016. CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-25.

Carlingford, Co Louth — Census 2022 Built Up Area

Built Up Area population, 2022

1,528people · 2022

Built Up Areas use a new land-use definition. Their population figures cannot be compared directly with Census 2016 settlement counts.

View population figures
Carlingford, Co Louth — Census 2022 Built Up Area — census population
Census yearPopulation
20221,528

Source: CSO F1015 — Population, Census 2022 Built Up Areas. CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-25.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Carlingford. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.