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About Knock

Knock, Cnoc Mhuire in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 58 km north of Galway, with 1,029 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the N17. The map gives it 2,133 buildings and 2 named streets, with 26 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 111 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
1,029 at the 2022 census
Where
58 km north of Galway, 182 km from Dublin
Position
53.7948° N, 8.9194° W, 78 m above sea level
Roads
N17
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
2,133 buildings, 2 streets, 26 named places in 21 kinds
Knock Caravan and Camping Park, Main Street
Knock Caravan and Camping Park, Main Street·Jo Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Ballyhowly, Mayo (1)
Castles of Connacht: Ballyhowly, Mayo (1)·Mike Searle, 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 111 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N17 running through Knock.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Knock?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 58 km north of Galway and 182 km from Dublin, on the N17.
How big is Knock?
1,029 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 2,133 buildings and 2 named streets.
What is there to see in Knock?
111 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Knock Shrine, Knock Playground and Knock Shrine.
How do you get to Knock?
4 bus and train lines call at 9 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda 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.
2,133
buildings on the model
2
named streets
26
named places
21
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 Q858133). 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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