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About Bornacoola

Bornacoola is a village in County Leitrim, 99 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 378 buildings and 1 named street, with 1 place named on them in 19 kinds, and 81 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 29th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.

Where
99 km north-east of Galway, 119 km from Dublin
Position
53.8268° N, 7.8703° W
Governed
Leitrim County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
378 buildings, 1 street, 1 named place in 19 kinds
County Leitrim, Cloonmorris Graveyard.
County Leitrim, Cloonmorris Graveyard.·Davidcorry200, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View of the 12th century church located in the graveyard of Bornacoola parshish, County Leitrim. May 2010.
View of the 12th century church located in the graveyard of Bornacoola parshish, County Leitrim. May 2010.·Laurel Lodged, 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 81 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Bornacoola?
In County Leitrim, in the province of Connacht, 99 km north-east of Galway and 119 km from Dublin.
How big is Bornacoola?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 378 buildings, 1 named street and 1 named place, which by building count makes it the 29th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.
What is there to see in Bornacoola?
81 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Gubroe Wood, Gubagraffy Lough and Gubroe Wood.
How do you get to Bornacoola?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Leitrim grown or shrunk?
The census counted 155,297 people in the county in 1841 and 35,199 in 2022.
378
buildings on the model
1
named streets
1
named places
19
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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