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Leitrim
County Leitrim · Connacht

About Leitrim

Leitrim, Liatroim in Irish, is a village in County Leitrim, 103 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R280 and R284. The map gives it 880 buildings and 16 named streets, with 32 places named on them in 35 kinds, and 154 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.

Where
103 km north-east of Galway, 139 km from Dublin
Position
53.9905° N, 8.0654° W
Roads
R280 and R284
Governed
Leitrim County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
880 buildings, 16 streets, 32 named places in 35 kinds
Near Leitrim Village, County Leitrim
Near Leitrim Village, County Leitrim·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The cruiser marina at the Marina hotel and apartment complex on the Shannon-Erne Waterway at the village of Leitrim. May 2010.
The cruiser marina at the Marina hotel and apartment complex on the Shannon-Erne Waterway at the village of Leitrim. May 2010.·Laurel Lodged (talk) at en.wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

County Leitrim 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.

155,29725,05735,19918412022

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 154 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R280 and R284 running through Leitrim.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St Joseph's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Leitrim?
In County Leitrim, in the province of Connacht, 103 km north-east of Galway and 139 km from Dublin, on the R280 and R284.
How big is Leitrim?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 880 buildings, 16 named streets and 32 named places, which by building count makes it the 8th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.
What is there to see in Leitrim?
154 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Shannon-Erne Waterway, Shannon-Erne Blueway and Killarcan Lock No. 16.
How do you get to Leitrim?
5 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim and Westlink Coaches.
Has County Leitrim grown or shrunk?
The census counted 155,297 people in the county in 1841 and 35,199 in 2022.
880
buildings on the model
16
named streets
32
named places
35
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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