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About Rossinver

Rossinver, Ros Inbhir in Irish, is a village in County Leitrim, 138 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R282. The map gives it 417 buildings and 4 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 85 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.

Where
138 km north-east of Galway, 167 km from Dublin
Position
54.3858° N, 8.1120° W, 65 m above sea level
Roads
R282
Governed
Leitrim County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
417 buildings, 4 streets, 6 named places in 18 kinds
The R281 at Straud
The R281 at Straud·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Home Bar, Rossinver. Leitrim
The Home Bar, Rossinver. Leitrim·Eric Jones, 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 85 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R282 running through Rossinver. 1 car park on the map.

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 Rossinver?
In County Leitrim, in the province of Connacht, 138 km north-east of Galway and 167 km from Dublin, on the R282.
How big is Rossinver?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 417 buildings, 4 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 23th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.
What is there to see in Rossinver?
85 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Glenaniff Waterfall, Fowley's Falls and Giant's Grave.
How do you get to Rossinver?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Leitrim grown or shrunk?
The census counted 155,297 people in the county in 1841 and 35,199 in 2022.
417
buildings on the model
4
named streets
6
named places
18
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 Q1922634). 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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