reasons. Birds seen regularly include razorbill, guillemot, fulmar, kittiwake, cormorant, stonechat, linnet, whitethroat, yellowhammer, skylark, wheatear, swallow, house martin, peregrine, buzzard and kestrel. Howth is also a destination for cyclists, joggers and hill-walkers alike, particularly on weekends. One attraction is the six-kilometre long Cliff Path Loop. The loop walk takes about two hours to complete, is rated with an easy to moderate difficulty, and begins and ends at the Howth DART [Railway] Station. Another common walk is the original Cliff Walk to Red Rock in Sutton. Administration and representation Howth was within County Dublin from the introduction of the shire structure by the Normans, and within North Dublin rural district from its creation under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. In 1918 Howth became a separate urban district with the consent of the Local Government Board for Ireland and despite the opposition of North Dublin rural district council. In 1942, it was transferred to Dublin county borough, with Dublin Corporation superseding the urban district council. In 1985, it was removed from the city and reassigned to the county. In 1994, it was in the area that became Fingal, the successor north of the River Liffey to County Dublin. At the 2019 Irish local elections, the Howth–Malahide local electoral area elected 7 councillors to Fingal County Council. Howth is in the Dublin Bay North Dáil constituency and the Dublin constituency for European elections. Popular culture Howth has been a filming location for movies such as The Last of the High Kings, Boy Eats Girl, Love, Rosie and Sing Street. Notable residents Among Howth's better-known residents are or have been: Peter Aiken of Aiken Promotions, son of Jim Aiken Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville James Bayley Butler, botanist and biologist, father of Katherine Butler; built a house called Glenlion in the Baily area of Howth Composer Brian Boydell, born in Howth in 1917 Broadcaster Gay Byrne and his wife, musician and author Kathleen Watkins, who lived in the Baily region of Howth for decades, and later passed their home to one of their daughters Writer Michael Feeney Callan Actor writer and comedian Gary Cooke who lived on the Claremont Road Howth in the 1970s and 1980s Eminent judge Gerald FitzGibbon who lived here for many years until his death in 1909; his house, Kilrock, was one of the centres of Dublin social life from the 1870s onwards High Court Judge Feargus Flood