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Ashtown
Baile an Ásaigh | |
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Suburb | |
 Ashtown, Dublin | |
  Ashtown Location in Dublin | |
| Coordinates: 53°22′31″N 6°19′58″W / 53.375369°N 6.332644°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | Dublin |
| Local authority | Dublin City Council |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Urban | 22,740 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | O133369 |
Ashtown (Irish: Baile an Ásaigh) is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is also a townland in the civil parish of Castleknock and falls largely into the postal district of Dublin 15, with some addresses in the Dublin 7 postal district.
Ashtown is bounded roughly by the townlands of Castleknock to the west. Finglas to the North, Cabra to the East and the Phoenix Park to the South. It is situated by the Royal Canal, near the Navan Road, which some addresses being named off Navan Road. The Phoenix Park is also nearby, its Ashtown Gate entrance about 500 metres south of the railway station. The townland's 278 acres are within Dublin City whereas Castleknock is in Fingal. The suburb had a population of 13,209 inhabitants as reported in the 2016 census.[1]
Teagasc has a food research centre at Ashtown.[2]
- ^ https://www.citypopulation.de/php/ireland-dublin.php From Census 2016 - includes population of electoral divisions: Ashtown A & B
- ^ Teagasc. "Ashtown Food Research Centre". Teagasc. Retrieved 11 May 2018.