Editing Howth (section)

==Amenities and businesses==
[[File:Ireland Victor Grigas 2011.jpg|thumb|right|Fishing nets and fishermen in Howth]]

Howth remains an active centre of the fishing industry, one of Ireland's "tier 2" fishing ports, with some processing performed in the fishing harbour area, and some boat maintenance. There is a State Fisheries Centre, including an ice-making plant, and a dry dock.

The area is active commercially, with a range of retail and leisure outlets, including multiple restaurants, two convenience stores and a post office, although the nearest supermarket is at Sutton Cross and the nearest service stations are in Baldoyle and Bayside.

Howth, having once held at least seven hotels, four still as of 1990,<ref name="Hotel listing">Out and About on the Howth Peninsula - Issue 2 - Winter 1990, Howth: "Places to Stay on the Peninsula" (quoting: Hotel Royal, Howth Lodge Hotel, St Lawrence Hotel, Deerpark Hotel, plus in Sutton: Marine Hotel, Sutton Castle Hotel)</ref> saw the last, the Deer Park Hotel, on the Howth Estate, close in April 2014, although the premises continued to trade as a bar, and base for the Deer Park golf courses and a 'FootGolf' course, and later housed refugees. The area has multiple bed-and-breakfast establishments, and [[Airbnb]] hosts. The nearest operational hotel, The Marine Hotel (formerly the Golfers Hotel and the Strand Hotel), is located at Sutton Cross, approximately 2.5&nbsp;km from Howth harbour.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} Other hotels that have closed include The Howth Lodge Hotel (formerly the Claremont Hotel), The Baily Court Hotel (formerly The Royal Hotel), The Saint Lawrence Hotel, [[Sutton Castle|Sutton Castle Hotel]] (part of its grounds were located in a remote part of Howth),<ref name="Hotel listing"/> the Waverley Hotel on Kitestown Road (burned down in the 1960s) and the Asgard Hotel (formerly The Dalriada Hotel) on Balscadden Bay. The Asgard hotel was famously owned by [[Phil Lynott]] and operated by his mother [[Philomena Lynott]] when it burned down in 1982, later being replaced by apartments.<ref>{{cite book|title=Cowboy Song: The Authorised Biography of Philip Lynott|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfIqCgAAQBAJ|date=2016|access-date=13 December 2019|isbn=9781472121066|last1=Thomson|first1=Graeme|publisher=[[Hachette UK]]|archive-date=24 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924161216/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfIqCgAAQBAJ&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref>