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About Bogtown

Bogtown is a village in County Mayo, 117 km north of Galway. The map gives it 238 buildings and 1 named street, with 3 places named on them in 11 kinds, and 51 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 94th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
117 km north of Galway, 229 km from Dublin
Position
54.3078° N, 9.3542° W
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
238 buildings, 1 street, 3 named places in 11 kinds
Downpatrick Head , Co. Mayo
Downpatrick Head , Co. Mayo·Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Shingle beach and coastal prairie
Shingle beach and coastal prairie·C Michael Hogan, 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 51 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 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 Bogtown?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 117 km north of Galway and 229 km from Dublin.
How big is Bogtown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 238 buildings, 1 named street and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 94th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Bogtown?
51 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Downpatrick Head Loop Walk, Blowhole and Tobercarney.
How do you get to Bogtown?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
238
buildings on the model
1
named streets
3
named places
11
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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