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About Crosskeys

Crosskeys, Carraig an Tobair in Irish, is a village in County Cavan, 92 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the L2502, L3000 and L3026. The map gives it 625 buildings and 10 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 244 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 19th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Where
92 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.9190° N, 7.2652° W
Roads
L2502, L3000 and L3026
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
625 buildings, 10 streets, 14 named places in 22 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 244 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L2502, L3000 and L3026 running through Crosskeys.

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: Crosskeys National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Crosskeys?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 92 km north-west of Dublin and 92 km from Dublin, on the L2502, L3000 and L3026.
How big is Crosskeys?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 625 buildings, 10 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 19th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Crosskeys?
244 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carrickatober Hill, Drumgeil and Cromwell's Camp.
How do you get to Crosskeys?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
625
buildings on the model
10
named streets
14
named places
22
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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