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About Gowel

Gowel is a village in County Leitrim, 104 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 336 buildings and 0 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 146 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 33th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.

Where
104 km north-east of Galway, 135 km from Dublin
Position
53.9839° N, 8.0101° W
Governed
Leitrim County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
336 buildings, 0 streets, 10 named places in 17 kinds

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 146 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Gowel; 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 Gowel?
In County Leitrim, in the province of Connacht, 104 km north-east of Galway and 135 km from Dublin.
How big is Gowel?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 336 buildings, 0 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 33th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.
What is there to see in Gowel?
146 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Annaghearly Lough, Sheemore and Dooloughan Lough.
How do you get to Gowel?
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.
336
buildings on the model
0
named streets
10
named places
17
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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