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About Drumcong

Drumcong is a village in County Leitrim, 110 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R209. The map gives it 398 buildings and 3 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 130 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.

Where
110 km north-east of Galway, 136 km from Dublin
Position
54.0290° N, 7.9733° W, 69 m above sea level
Roads
R209
Governed
Leitrim County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
398 buildings, 3 streets, 13 named places in 15 kinds
Castle John c. 1791
Castle John c. 1791·Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791; Ledwich, Edward, 1738-1823, continuator, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church in Drumcong, county Leitrim
St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church in Drumcong, county Leitrim·Jim TeVogt, CC BY-SA 2.0 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 130 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R209 running through Drumcong.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop 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 Drumcong?
In County Leitrim, in the province of Connacht, 110 km north-east of Galway and 136 km from Dublin, on the R209.
How big is Drumcong?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 398 buildings, 3 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 27th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.
What is there to see in Drumcong?
130 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carrickaport Lough, Lough Caech and Dermot & Grania's Bed.
How do you get to Drumcong?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim.
Has County Leitrim grown or shrunk?
The census counted 155,297 people in the county in 1841 and 35,199 in 2022.
398
buildings on the model
3
named streets
13
named places
15
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 Q2085799). 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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