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About Bawnboy

Bawnboy, An Bábhún Bui in Irish, is a village in County Cavan, 127 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the N87, L1030 and L1033. The map gives it 497 buildings and 25 named streets, with 27 places named on them in 29 kinds, and 198 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 31th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Where
127 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.1210° N, 7.6758° W
Roads
N87, L1030, L1033 and L1037
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
497 buildings, 25 streets, 27 named places in 29 kinds
Farmhouse on the N87 north of Bawnboy
Farmhouse on the N87 north of Bawnboy·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The N87 in the village of Bawnboy
The N87 in the village of Bawnboy·Eric Jones, 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 198 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N87, L1030, L1033 and L1037 running through Bawnboy.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Saint Mogue's College and Bawnboy National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Bawnboy?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 127 km north-west of Dublin and 127 km from Dublin, on the N87, L1030 and L1033.
How big is Bawnboy?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 497 buildings, 25 named streets and 27 named places, which by building count makes it the 31th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Bawnboy?
198 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Bawnboy Workhouse, Mausoleum Wood and Bawnboy Forest Recreation Area.
How do you get to Bawnboy?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Leydons Coaches.
Has County Cavan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 243,158 people in the county in 1841 and 81,704 in 2022.
497
buildings on the model
25
named streets
27
named places
29
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 Q311504). 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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