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About Leenaun

Leenaun, Lionán in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 56 km north-west of Galway. The map gives it 255 buildings and 0 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 125 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 70th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
56 km north-west of Galway, 229 km from Dublin
Position
53.5958° N, 9.6942° W, 127 m above sea level
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
255 buildings, 0 streets, 15 named places in 21 kinds
Village of Leenane, County Galway (29901419006)
Village of Leenane, County Galway (29901419006)·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Killary Harbour at Leenaun
Killary Harbour at Leenaun·Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Galway 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.

440,198148,340277,73718412022

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 125 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Leenaun; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Leenaun?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 56 km north-west of Galway and 229 km from Dublin.
How big is Leenaun?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 255 buildings, 0 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 70th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Leenaun?
125 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Sheep And Wool Heritage Centre, Waterfall and Leenaun Hill Far North-West Top.
How do you get to Leenaun?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
255
buildings on the model
0
named streets
15
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 (item Q1565315). 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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