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About Cornafean

Cornafean is a village in County Cavan, 105 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R198 and L1528. The map gives it 361 buildings and 13 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 307 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 39th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Where
105 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.9471° N, 7.4860° W
Roads
R198 and L1528
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
361 buildings, 13 streets, 13 named places in 16 kinds

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 307 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R198 and L1528 running through Cornafean.

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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Cornafean?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 105 km north-west of Dublin and 105 km from Dublin, on the R198 and L1528.
How big is Cornafean?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 361 buildings, 13 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 39th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Cornafean?
307 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cornafean GFC, Cornafean Lough and Cloggy.
How do you get to Cornafean?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon.
Has County Cavan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 243,158 people in the county in 1841 and 81,704 in 2022.
361
buildings on the model
13
named streets
13
named places
16
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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