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About Blacklion

Blacklion, An Blaic in Irish, is a village in County Cavan, 137 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the A4, N16 and B52. The map gives it 645 buildings and 30 named streets, with 46 places named on them in 41 kinds, and 221 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Where
137 km north-east of Galway, 149 km from Dublin
Position
54.2916° N, 7.8762° W
Roads
A4, N16, B52, R206, C441 and L1010
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
645 buildings, 30 streets, 46 named places in 41 kinds
Blacklion village
Blacklion village·Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Blacklion village
Blacklion village·Robert Ashby, 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 221 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the A4, N16, B52, R206, C441 and L1010 running through Blacklion.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Saint Columban's Primary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Blacklion?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 137 km north-east of Galway and 149 km from Dublin, on the A4, N16 and B52.
How big is Blacklion?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 645 buildings, 30 named streets and 46 named places, which by building count makes it the 17th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Blacklion?
221 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Market House, Ture Rising and Marlbank Wood.
How do you get to Blacklion?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Cavan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 243,158 people in the county in 1841 and 81,704 in 2022.
645
buildings on the model
30
named streets
46
named places
41
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. 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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