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About Carnacon

Carnacon is a village in County Mayo, 52 km north of Galway. The map gives it 345 buildings and 1 named street, with 10 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 111 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 74th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
52 km north of Galway, 200 km from Dublin
Position
53.7315° N, 9.2206° W
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
345 buildings, 1 street, 10 named places in 16 kinds
Church at Carnacon
Church at Carnacon·Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Carrownagreggaun townland
Carrownagreggaun townland·Robert Ashby, 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 Carnacon; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Carnacon National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Carnacon?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 52 km north of Galway and 200 km from Dublin.
How big is Carnacon?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 345 buildings, 1 named street and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 74th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Carnacon?
111 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carrownacon Lough, Carrownacon Lough and Cloonboorhy Lough.
How do you get to Carnacon?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
345
buildings on the model
1
named streets
10
named places
16
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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