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About Lecanvey

Lecanvey, Leac an Anfa in Irish, is a village in County Mayo, 70 km north-west of Galway. It stands on the R335. The map gives it 346 buildings and 2 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 86 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 73th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
70 km north-west of Galway, 231 km from Dublin
Position
53.7793° N, 9.6873° W, 205 m above sea level
Roads
R335
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
346 buildings, 2 streets, 14 named places in 22 kinds
Bertra Strand
Bertra Strand·Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View from the R335
View from the R335·Robert Ashby, 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 86 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R335 running through Lecanvey.

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

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

Questions people ask

Where is Lecanvey?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 70 km north-west of Galway and 231 km from Dublin, on the R335.
How big is Lecanvey?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 346 buildings, 2 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 73th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Lecanvey?
86 things the map records in and around it, the closest being White Strand, Bunnatruffa and Thornhill Neolithic mound.
How do you get to Lecanvey?
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.
346
buildings on the model
2
named streets
14
named places
22
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 Q2085748). 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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