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About Bunacurry

Bunacurry, Bun an Churraigh in Irish, is a village in County Mayo, 99 km north-west of Galway. The map gives it 385 buildings and 0 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 86 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 67th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
99 km north-west of Galway, 254 km from Dublin
Position
53.9750° N, 9.9750° W, 1 m above sea level
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
385 buildings, 0 streets, 3 named places in 14 kinds
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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 86 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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 Bunacurry?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 99 km north-west of Galway and 254 km from Dublin.
How big is Bunacurry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 385 buildings, 0 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 67th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Bunacurry?
86 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Bunacurry Franciscan Monastery, Saula Hill and Loughannascaddy.
How do you get to Bunacurry?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 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.
385
buildings on the model
0
named streets
3
named places
14
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 Q1004903). 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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