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About Jamestown

Jamestown is a village in County Leitrim, 99 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N4. The map gives it 451 buildings and 2 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 146 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 20th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.

Where
99 km north-east of Galway, 133 km from Dublin
Position
53.9269° N, 8.0303° W
Roads
N4
Governed
Leitrim County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
451 buildings, 2 streets, 10 named places in 19 kinds
County Leitrim, Jamestown Bridge.
County Leitrim, Jamestown Bridge.·Jonjobaker, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street, Drumsna
Main Street, Drumsna·Darrin Antrobus, 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 146 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N4 running through Jamestown.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 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 Jamestown?
In County Leitrim, in the province of Connacht, 99 km north-east of Galway and 133 km from Dublin, on the N4.
How big is Jamestown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 451 buildings, 2 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 20th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.
What is there to see in Jamestown?
146 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Jamestown Arch, Lisgarney and Patrick Gill Memorial Plaque (IRA).
How do you get to Jamestown?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and 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.
451
buildings on the model
2
named streets
10
named places
19
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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