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Laytown
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Place details
- Region
- Leinster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 10,889
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Laytown
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Laytown Strand Races - geograph.org.uk - 547827.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Laytown Races
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Leinster
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- County Meath
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.blank_name
- Irish Grid Reference
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Meath
- Elevation
- 0
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Laytown meath beach.jpg
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- Commons category
- Laytown
- Irish Grid Reference
- O162714
- historic county
- County Meath
- native label
- An Inse
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Archaeological finds
- 19th and 20th century developments
- Subsequent growth
- Geography
- Education
- Transport and communications
- Amenities
- Laytown on film
- Laytown races
- Governance
- See also
- References
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Laytown () is a village in County Meath, Ireland, overlooking the Irish Sea. Historically it was called Ninch, after the townland it occupies. Together with the neighbouring villages of Mornington, Bettystown and Donacarney, it comprises the census town of Laytown–Bettystown–Mornington–Donacarney, which recorded a population of 15,642 in the 2022 census.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Laytown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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