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About Achill Sound

Achill Sound, Gob an Choire in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 93 km north-west of Galway, with 302 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R319 and L5456. The map gives it 900 buildings and 5 named streets, with 39 places named on them in 38 kinds, and 84 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
302 at the 2006 census
Where
93 km north-west of Galway, 250 km from Dublin
Position
53.9296° N, 9.9275° W
Roads
R319 and L5456
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
900 buildings, 5 streets, 39 named places in 38 kinds
Acjill Island - Achill Sound - Patrick Sweeney Super Valu Supermarket - Front View
Acjill Island - Achill Sound - Patrick Sweeney Super Valu Supermarket - Front View·Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Mayo - Achill Island - Achill Sound - R319 Bridge
County Mayo - Achill Island - Achill Sound - R319 Bridge·Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Mayo 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.

388,887109,525137,97018412022

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 84 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R319 and L5456 running through Achill Sound. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Achill Sound Convent National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Achill Sound?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 93 km north-west of Galway and 250 km from Dublin, on the R319 and L5456.
How big is Achill Sound?
302 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 900 buildings and 5 named streets.
What is there to see in Achill Sound?
84 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Loch na Sraithíní, Loch Áine and Saula Hill.
How do you get to Achill Sound?
2 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Mayo.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
900
buildings on the model
5
named streets
39
named places
38
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 Q1755549). 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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