page_title: Swords, Dublin
section_title: Roads
hierarchical_section_title: Swords, Dublin / Transport / Roads
caption_attribution_description: English: Fáilte Sord 2018 sculpture, carved in a 100-year-old Cedar Glauca piece.
context_page_description: Swords is the county town of Fingal and a large suburban town on the Northside of Dublin. Lying ten kilometres north of the city centre, on the Ward River, and reputedly founded around 560 A.D., it features a restored medieval castle, a holy well from which it takes its name, a round tower and a Norman tower. Near to Dublin Airport, Swords is also home to one of the Dublin region's larger shopping centres, The Pavilions, several other retail facilities and a range of industries. Suburban housing estates lie around the town centre, with several parks and many schools and sporting facilities.
  The name "Swords" is also applicable to a townland, to the civil parish, within the historic County Dublin, and to the local electoral area.
context_section_description: Swords has good road links due to its proximity to Dublin city, which is the main focus for the Irish road network. The M1 Dublin-Belfast motorway passes along the eastern edge of the town and is the main route to/from Dublin City, Drogheda, Dundalk, Newry and Belfast. The M50 Dublin semi-orbital motorway passes to the south of the town and provides connections with all of the other main roads out of Dublin (N2, N3, N4, N7, N81 and M11). The R132 dual-carriageway by-passes the centre of Swords, and runs south to Dublin Airport and north to Balbriggan. The proposed Swords Western Ring Road dual carriageway is due to run from the M1 at Lissenhall, north of Swords, along the western edge of Swords to the M2 motorway at Cherryhound. Other main roads from Swords include the R106 to Malahide and Portmarnock, R108 to Ballyboughal and Naul, R125 to Ashbourne and the M2 motorway, R126 to Donabate and Portrane and R127 to Lusk and Skerries.
caption: Fáilte Sord 2018 sculpture
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