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About Bunnahowen

Bunnahowen, Bun na hAbhna in Irish, is a village in County Mayo, 117 km north-west of Galway. The map gives it 323 buildings and 1 named street, with 6 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 30 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 81th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
117 km north-west of Galway, 257 km from Dublin
Position
54.1920° N, 9.9056° W
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
323 buildings, 1 street, 6 named places in 14 kinds
Wild Atlantic Way
Wild Atlantic Way·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Attractive fields with gravel works in distance
Attractive fields with gravel works in distance·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 30 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call 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 Bunnahowen?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 117 km north-west of Galway and 257 km from Dublin.
How big is Bunnahowen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 323 buildings, 1 named street and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 81th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Bunnahowen?
30 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cnoc Ghleann Chaisil, Marian Shrine and Domhaill's Grave.
How do you get to Bunnahowen?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Corduff Travel 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.
323
buildings on the model
1
named streets
6
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. 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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