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About Carrick-on-Shannon

Carrick-on-Shannon, Cora Droma Rúisc in Irish, is a town in County Leitrim, 97 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N4, R280 and R903. The map gives it 4,092 buildings and 59 named streets, with 159 places named on them in 86 kinds, and 156 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.

Population
4,743, as the map records it
Where
97 km north-east of Galway, 138 km from Dublin
Position
53.9441° N, 8.0953° W, 45 m above sea level
Roads
N4, R280, R903, L3400 and L3408
Governed
Leitrim County Council, in the province of Connacht
Twinned with
Cesson-Sévigné, France
On the model
4,092 buildings, 59 streets, 159 named places in 86 kinds
Bridge into Carrick On Shannon
Bridge into Carrick On Shannon·Thomas Roberts, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Swan on the Shannon River near Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland
Swan on the Shannon River near Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland·Jorge1767, 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 156 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N4, R280, R903, L3400 and L3408 running through Carrick-on-Shannon. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 9 lines call at 12 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 Carrick-on-Shannon?
In County Leitrim, in the province of Connacht, 97 km north-east of Galway and 138 km from Dublin, on the N4, R280 and R903.
How big is Carrick-on-Shannon?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 4,092 buildings, 59 named streets and 159 named places, which by building count makes it the largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.
What is there to see in Carrick-on-Shannon?
156 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carrick on Shannon Chamber, Tourist Information Centre and Moon River.
How do you get to Carrick-on-Shannon?
9 bus and train lines call at 12 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Leitrim grown or shrunk?
The census counted 155,297 people in the county in 1841 and 35,199 in 2022.
4,092
buildings on the model
59
named streets
159
named places
86
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 Q589390). 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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