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About Doohooma

Doohooma, Dumha Thuama in Irish, is a village in County Mayo, 106 km north-west of Galway. The map gives it 484 buildings and 1 named street, with 8 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 55 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 48th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
110, as the map records it
Where
106 km north-west of Galway, 255 km from Dublin
Position
54.0727° N, 9.9421° W
Area
4.46 km²
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
484 buildings, 1 street, 8 named places in 20 kinds

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 55 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

3 lines call at 7 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Náisiúnta Dhumha Thuama.

Questions people ask

Where is Doohooma?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 106 km north-west of Galway and 255 km from Dublin.
How big is Doohooma?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 484 buildings, 1 named street and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 48th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Doohooma?
55 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cnoc na Ráithe, Trá na nAscaill and Doona Castle.
How do you get to Doohooma?
3 bus and train lines call at 7 stops here in the published timetable, run by Corduff Travel and McGrath Coaches.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
484
buildings on the model
1
named streets
8
named places
20
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 Q3776246). 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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