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About Carrigallen

Carrigallen, Carraig Álainn in Irish, is a village in County Leitrim, 115 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R201. The map gives it 778 buildings and 4 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 199 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 10th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.

Where
115 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.9770° N, 7.6462° W, 76 m above sea level
Roads
R201
Governed
Leitrim County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
778 buildings, 4 streets, 16 named places in 16 kinds
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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 199 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R201 running through Carrigallen.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Carrigallen Vocational School.

Questions people ask

Where is Carrigallen?
In County Leitrim, in the province of Connacht, 115 km north-west of Dublin and 115 km from Dublin, on the R201.
How big is Carrigallen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 778 buildings, 4 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 10th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.
What is there to see in Carrigallen?
199 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carrigallen Lough, Gangin Lough and Mosy's Lough.
How do you get to Carrigallen?
3 bus and train lines call at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Leitrim grown or shrunk?
The census counted 155,297 people in the county in 1841 and 35,199 in 2022.
778
buildings on the model
4
named streets
16
named places
16
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 Q2085788). 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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