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About Dooniver

Dooniver, Dún Ibhir in Irish, is a village in County Mayo, 100 km north-west of Galway. The map gives it 277 buildings and 0 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 11 kinds, and 74 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 85th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
100 km north-west of Galway, 253 km from Dublin
Position
54.0021° N, 9.9463° W
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
277 buildings, 0 streets, 6 named places in 11 kinds
A Picture of the Valley House, Tóin an tSeanbhaile, Achill, where Mrs. Agnes McDonnell lived in the late 19th century. Currently a hostel and bar.
A Picture of the Valley House, Tóin an tSeanbhaile, Achill, where Mrs. Agnes McDonnell lived in the late 19th century. Currently a hostel and bar.·Yurgenphogen, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The lane from Doogort to Bunacurry
The lane from Doogort to Bunacurry·David Purchase, 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 74 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 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 Dooniver?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 100 km north-west of Galway and 253 km from Dublin.
How big is Dooniver?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 277 buildings, 0 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 85th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Dooniver?
74 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lochanna Dhún Ibhir, Trá Dhún Ibhir and Loch Dhún Ibhir.
How do you get to Dooniver?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 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.
277
buildings on the model
0
named streets
6
named places
11
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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