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About Ballyjamesduff

Ballyjamesduff, Baile Shéamais Dhuibh in Irish, is a town in County Cavan, 85 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R194, R196 and L3004. The map gives it 3,068 buildings and 88 named streets, with 152 places named on them in 65 kinds, and 263 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Population
2,917, as the map records it
Where
85 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.8639° N, 7.2062° W, 104 m above sea level
Area
1.69 km²
Roads
R194, R196, L3004, L3011, L3013, L3015, L3016 and L3017
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
3,068 buildings, 88 streets, 152 named places in 65 kinds
Anne Street, Ballyjamesduff
Anne Street, Ballyjamesduff·HENRY CLARK, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Information Board at Lecken Lake http://www.fishingireland.com/lacken.html
Information Board at Lecken Lake http://www.fishingireland.com/lacken.html·HENRY CLARK, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 263 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R194, R196, L3004, L3011, L3013, L3015, L3016 and L3017 running through Ballyjamesduff.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 10 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Saint Clare's College and Saint Clare's Primary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyjamesduff?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 85 km north-west of Dublin and 85 km from Dublin, on the R194, R196 and L3004.
How big is Ballyjamesduff?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,068 buildings, 88 named streets and 152 named places, which by building count makes it the 6th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Ballyjamesduff?
263 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tourist Information Board, River Inny Bridge and Ballyjamesduff Heritage Trail.
How do you get to Ballyjamesduff?
3 bus and train lines call at 10 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Reilly Bus Hire and TFI Local Link Cavan Monaghan.
Has County Cavan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 243,158 people in the county in 1841 and 81,704 in 2022.
3,068
buildings on the model
88
named streets
152
named places
65
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 Q252038). 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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