About Ryefield
Ryefield is a village in County Cavan, 72 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the L3023, L3024 and L3025. The map gives it 456 buildings and 11 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 232 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 35th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
- Where
- 72 km north-west of Dublin
- Position
- 53.7867° N, 7.0556° W
- Roads
- L3023, L3024, L3025 and L6829
- Governed
- Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
- On the model
- 456 buildings, 11 streets, 14 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.
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.
- 880 m
- Ryefield North1.4 kmHills
- Islandboy1.6 kmWoods
- Stony Island1.6 kmWoods
- Island1.7 kmHills
- Ryefield Island1.8 kmWoods
- Behernagh Island1.8 kmWoods
- Ryefield Sand Bank1.9 kmWoods
- Knocknagartan South2.1 kmRingforts and sites
- Illanakirka Island2.3 kmWoods
- Woodworth's Island2.4 kmWoods
- Site of RC Church2.5 kmRingforts and sites
Getting around
The map records the L3023, L3024, L3025 and L6829 running through Ryefield.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
Questions people ask
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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.