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About Lahinch

Lahinch, Leacht Uí Chonchubhair in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 43 km south-west of Galway, with 638 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the N67, R478 and L1086. The map gives it 730 buildings and 13 named streets, with 73 places named on them in 42 kinds, and 87 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Population
638 at the 2016 census
Where
43 km south-west of Galway, 211 km from Dublin
Position
52.9321° N, 9.3459° W
Roads
N67, R478 and L1086
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
730 buildings, 13 streets, 73 named places in 42 kinds
Lehinch - Sea front view N
Lehinch - Sea front view N·Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Beach Front at Lehinch
Beach Front at Lehinch·Lobster1, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Clare 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.

286,39473,597127,93818412022

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 87 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N67, R478 and L1086 running through Lahinch.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Lahinch?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 43 km south-west of Galway and 211 km from Dublin, on the N67, R478 and L1086.
How big is Lahinch?
638 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 730 buildings and 13 named streets.
What is there to see in Lahinch?
87 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lahinch Beach, Information and Doonmeave.
How do you get to Lahinch?
3 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Burren and Cliffs Explorer and Bus Éireann.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
730
buildings on the model
13
named streets
73
named places
42
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 Q1800597). 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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