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About Errew

Errew is a village in County Mayo, 60 km north of Galway. The map gives it 450 buildings and 0 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 164 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 53th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
60 km north of Galway, 204 km from Dublin
Position
53.7964° N, 9.2646° W
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
450 buildings, 0 streets, 2 named places in 17 kinds
Photograph of the remains of Errew Abbey, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Photograph of the remains of Errew Abbey, Co. Mayo, Ireland·JohnArmagh, 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 164 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Errew?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 60 km north of Galway and 204 km from Dublin.
How big is Errew?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 450 buildings, 0 named streets and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 53th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Errew?
164 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lisdrummeendonnell, Buncam Lough and French Hill Monument.
How do you get to Errew?
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.
450
buildings on the model
0
named streets
2
named places
17
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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