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About Lavey

Lavey, Leamhaí in Irish, is a village in County Cavan, 94 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the N3, R165 and L2027. The map gives it 507 buildings and 19 named streets, with 27 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 270 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Where
94 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.9666° N, 7.2304° W
Roads
N3, R165, L2027, L3001 and L6504
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
507 buildings, 19 streets, 27 named places in 24 kinds
Stradone Community Centre from the R165
Stradone Community Centre from the R165·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View south along the N3 at Knock
View south along the N3 at Knock·Eric Jones, 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 270 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N3, R165, L2027, L3001 and L6504 running through Lavey.

By bus or train

5 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: Killyconnan National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Lavey?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 94 km north-west of Dublin and 94 km from Dublin, on the N3, R165 and L2027.
How big is Lavey?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 507 buildings, 19 named streets and 27 named places, which by building count makes it the 27th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Lavey?
270 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lavey Strand, Lavey Lough and Lavey Fort.
How do you get to Lavey?
5 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bailieboro Car & Coach Hire, Bus Éireann and Streamline Coaches.
Has County Cavan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 243,158 people in the county in 1841 and 81,704 in 2022.
507
buildings on the model
19
named streets
27
named places
24
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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