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About Cong

Cong, Conga in Irish, is a village in County Mayo, 34 km north-west of Galway, with 150 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R345. The map gives it 632 buildings and 5 named streets, with 40 places named on them in 32 kinds, and 79 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 31th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
150 at the 2006 census
Where
34 km north-west of Galway, 201 km from Dublin
Position
53.5408° N, 9.2859° W, 21 m above sea level
Roads
R345
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
632 buildings, 5 streets, 40 named places in 32 kinds
Quiet Man House in Cong
Quiet Man House in Cong·Lobster1, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
River from a bridge in Cong
River from a bridge in Cong·Lobster1, CC BY-SA 3.0 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 79 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R345 running through Cong.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Cong?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 34 km north-west of Galway and 201 km from Dublin, on the R345.
How big is Cong?
150 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 632 buildings and 5 named streets.
What is there to see in Cong?
79 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cong Abbey, Quiet Man Museum and Park.
How do you get to Cong?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Galway.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
632
buildings on the model
5
named streets
40
named places
32
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 Q1125668). 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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