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About Butlers Bridge

Butlers Bridge, Droichead an Bhuitléaraigh in Irish, is a village in County Cavan, 107 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the N3, N54 and L1511. The map gives it 709 buildings and 34 named streets, with 26 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 399 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Where
107 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.0437° N, 7.3771° W, 57 m above sea level
Roads
N3, N54, L1511, L1532 and L1533
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
709 buildings, 34 streets, 26 named places in 28 kinds
The village of Butler's Bridge, Co Cavan
The village of Butler's Bridge, Co Cavan·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Murphs Bistro at Derragarra Inn, Butlersbridge, Co. Cavan
Murphs Bistro at Derragarra Inn, Butlersbridge, Co. Cavan·Deadstar, CC BY 4.0 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 399 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N3, N54, L1511, L1532 and L1533 running through Butlers Bridge.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Butlers Bridge National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Butlers Bridge?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 107 km north-west of Dublin and 107 km from Dublin, on the N3, N54 and L1511.
How big is Butlers Bridge?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 709 buildings, 34 named streets and 26 named places, which by building count makes it the 15th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Butlers Bridge?
399 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Giants Grave, Drummany Fort and Derrygarra Upper.
How do you get to Butlers Bridge?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Leydons Coaches 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.
709
buildings on the model
34
named streets
26
named places
28
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 Q401089). 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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