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About Kilmaine

Kilmaine, Cill Mheáin in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 34 km north of Galway. The map gives it 1,920 buildings and 1 named street, with 11 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 113 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
201, as the map records it
Where
34 km north of Galway, 191 km from Dublin
Position
53.5800° N, 9.1219° W
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,920 buildings, 1 street, 11 named places in 15 kinds
South view of the old church of Kilmaine with a 16th-century tracery window on the site of an early Christian monastery.
South view of the old church of Kilmaine with a 16th-century tracery window on the site of an early Christian monastery.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Piscina in the east wall of the south transept.
Piscina in the east wall of the south transept.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 113 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilmaine?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 34 km north of Galway and 191 km from Dublin.
How big is Kilmaine?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,920 buildings, 1 named street and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 15th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Kilmaine?
113 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Holy Trinity Church, Kilmaine Abbey and Toberpatrick.
How do you get to Kilmaine?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Burkesbus and Bus Éireann.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
1,920
buildings on the model
1
named streets
11
named places
15
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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