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About Dowra

Dowra, An Damhshraith in Irish, is a village in County Cavan, 122 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R200 and R207. The map gives it 371 buildings and 16 named streets, with 29 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 147 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 37th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Where
122 km north-east of Galway, 148 km from Dublin
Position
54.1903° N, 8.0146° W, 57 m above sea level
Roads
R200 and R207
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
371 buildings, 16 streets, 29 named places in 28 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 147 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R200 and R207 running through Dowra.

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: Saint Hugh’s National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Dowra?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 122 km north-east of Galway and 148 km from Dublin, on the R200 and R207.
How big is Dowra?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 371 buildings, 16 named streets and 29 named places, which by building count makes it the 37th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Dowra?
147 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Aggie's Fairy Trail Park, Republican Garden of Remembrance and Dowra.
How do you get to Dowra?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim.
Has County Cavan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 243,158 people in the county in 1841 and 81,704 in 2022.
371
buildings on the model
16
named streets
29
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 Q401092). 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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