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About Swanlinbar

Swanlinbar, An Muileann Iarainn in Irish, is a village in County Cavan, 134 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the A32, N87 and L1017. The map gives it 700 buildings and 30 named streets, with 34 places named on them in 30 kinds, and 178 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Where
134 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.1947° N, 7.7044° W
Roads
A32, N87, L1017 and L1031
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
700 buildings, 30 streets, 34 named places in 30 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 178 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the A32, N87, L1017 and L1031 running through Swanlinbar. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Mhuire National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Swanlinbar?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 134 km north-west of Dublin and 134 km from Dublin, on the A32, N87 and L1017.
How big is Swanlinbar?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 700 buildings, 30 named streets and 34 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Swanlinbar?
178 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Mill Pond, Fairgreen and Swanlinbar Playground.
How do you get to Swanlinbar?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Leydons Coaches 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.
700
buildings on the model
30
named streets
34
named places
30
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 Q3776382). 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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