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Cavan
County Cavan · Ulster

About Cavan

Cavan, An Cabhán in Irish, is a town in County Cavan, 102 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the N3, N55 and R188. The map gives it 7,458 buildings and 257 named streets, with 574 places named on them in 165 kinds, and 331 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Population
3,300, as the map records it
Where
102 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.9911° N, 7.3603° W, 113 m above sea level
Area
3.74 km²
Roads
N3, N55, R188, R198, R212, R901, R935 and L1512
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
7,458 buildings, 257 streets, 574 named places in 165 kinds
A view of Cavan Town Hall.
A view of Cavan Town Hall.·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A view of Cavan Courthouse.
A view of Cavan Courthouse.·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Cavan in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1233 to 1989. That is not a history of Cavan, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

12331989Clogh Oughter CastleCavan General Hospital
The thirteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

County Cavan since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

243,15852,61881,70418412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 331 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N3, N55, R188, R198, R212, R901, R935 and L1512 running through Cavan. 23 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

22 lines call at 66 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

16 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Cavan?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 102 km north-west of Dublin and 102 km from Dublin, on the N3, N55 and R188.
How big is Cavan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 7,458 buildings, 257 named streets and 574 named places, which by building count makes it the largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Cavan?
331 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Owen Roe O'Neill grave, Owen Roe O'Neill and Abbey Land.
How do you get to Cavan?
22 bus and train lines call at 66 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bailieboro Car & Coach Hire, Bus Éireann and Leydons Coaches.
Has County Cavan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 243,158 people in the county in 1841 and 81,704 in 2022.
7,458
buildings on the model
257
named streets
574
named places
165
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q215361). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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