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About Kinlough

Kinlough, Cionn Locha in Irish, is a village in County Leitrim, 140 km north of Galway. It stands on the R280. The map gives it 1,661 buildings and 12 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 77 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.

Where
140 km north of Galway, 180 km from Dublin
Position
54.4477° N, 8.2854° W
Roads
R280
Governed
Leitrim County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,661 buildings, 12 streets, 14 named places in 27 kinds
Ireland in Ruins: Kinlough House, Co. Leitrim (1)
Ireland in Ruins: Kinlough House, Co. Leitrim (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ireland in Ruins: Kinlough House, Co. Leitrim (2)
Ireland in Ruins: Kinlough House, Co. Leitrim (2)·Mike Searle, 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 77 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R280 running through Kinlough.

By bus or train

1 line calls 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 Kinlough?
In County Leitrim, in the province of Connacht, 140 km north of Galway and 180 km from Dublin, on the R280.
How big is Kinlough?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,661 buildings, 12 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 7th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.
What is there to see in Kinlough?
77 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Melvin Eco Park Playground, Four Masters Bridge and Rosclogher Castle.
How do you get to Kinlough?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops 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.
1,661
buildings on the model
12
named streets
14
named places
27
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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