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About Bofeenaun

Bofeenaun, Both Faonáin in Irish, is a village in County Mayo, 81 km north of Galway. The map gives it 435 buildings and 0 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 111 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 56th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
81 km north of Galway, 214 km from Dublin
Position
53.9866° N, 9.3268° W
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
435 buildings, 0 streets, 5 named places in 13 kinds
Bofeenaun church
Bofeenaun church·Neville Goodman, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A view to Nephin
A view to Nephin·Neville Goodman, 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 111 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Bofeenaun; the roads it does record are local.

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 Bofeenaun?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 81 km north of Galway and 214 km from Dublin.
How big is Bofeenaun?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 435 buildings, 0 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 56th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Bofeenaun?
111 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough beg, Levally Lough and Lough More.
How do you get to Bofeenaun?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by 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.
435
buildings on the model
0
named streets
5
named places
13
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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