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About Drumshanbo

Drumshanbo, Droim Seanbhó in Irish, is a town in County Leitrim, 109 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R207 and R280. The map gives it 2,360 buildings and 23 named streets, with 44 places named on them in 36 kinds, and 133 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.

Where
109 km north-east of Galway, 140 km from Dublin
Position
54.0467° N, 8.0402° W, 60 m above sea level
Roads
R207 and R280
Governed
Leitrim County Council, in the province of Connacht
Twinned with
Locquirec, France
On the model
2,360 buildings, 23 streets, 44 named places in 36 kinds
Church St, Drumshanbo, County Leitrim
Church St, Drumshanbo, County Leitrim·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hill Road, Drumshanbo
Hill Road, Drumshanbo·Kenneth Allen, 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 133 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R207 and R280 running through Drumshanbo.

By bus or train

8 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Drumshanbo Primary School and Drumshanbo Vocational School.

Questions people ask

Where is Drumshanbo?
In County Leitrim, in the province of Connacht, 109 km north-east of Galway and 140 km from Dublin, on the R207 and R280.
How big is Drumshanbo?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,360 buildings, 23 named streets and 44 named places, which by building count makes it the 3th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.
What is there to see in Drumshanbo?
133 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tourist Information, Acres Lough and Sliabh an Iarainn Visitor Centre.
How do you get to Drumshanbo?
8 bus and train lines call at 9 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim and TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon.
Has County Leitrim grown or shrunk?
The census counted 155,297 people in the county in 1841 and 35,199 in 2022.
2,360
buildings on the model
23
named streets
44
named places
36
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 Q1903333). 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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