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About Loch Gowna

Loch Gowna, Loch Gamhna in Irish, is a village in County Cavan, 102 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the L1050, L2508 and L2510. The map gives it 603 buildings and 19 named streets, with 29 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 176 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Where
102 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.8733° N, 7.5339° W
Roads
L1050, L2508, L2510, L2511 and L2513
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
603 buildings, 19 streets, 29 named places in 21 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 176 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1050, L2508, L2510, L2511 and L2513 running through Loch Gowna. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Gowna National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Loch Gowna?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 102 km north-west of Dublin and 102 km from Dublin, on the L1050, L2508 and L2510.
How big is Loch Gowna?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 603 buildings, 19 named streets and 29 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Loch Gowna?
176 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Scrabby Island, Cornagran and Swan Lough.
How do you get to Loch Gowna?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop 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.
603
buildings on the model
19
named streets
29
named places
21
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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