Skip to content
Mayo
County Mayo · Connacht

About Louisburgh

Louisburgh, Cluain Cearbán in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 74 km north-west of Galway, with 434 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the R335. The map gives it 1,440 buildings and 18 named streets, with 36 places named on them in 31 kinds, and 82 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 18th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
434 at the 2016 census
Where
74 km north-west of Galway, 239 km from Dublin
Position
53.7635° N, 9.8085° W, 5 m above sea level
Roads
R335
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,440 buildings, 18 streets, 36 named places in 31 kinds
An aerial view of Louisburgh in the evening light.
An aerial view of Louisburgh in the evening light.·WojtekKosinski, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Louisburg main street
Louisburg main street·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 82 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R335 running through Louisburgh.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Sancta Maria College and Scoil Naisiunta Padraig Naofa.

Questions people ask

Where is Louisburgh?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 74 km north-west of Galway and 239 km from Dublin, on the R335.
How big is Louisburgh?
434 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 1,440 buildings and 18 named streets.
What is there to see in Louisburgh?
82 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carrowmore Beach, Carrowmore Beach and O'Malley's Castle.
How do you get to Louisburgh?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop 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.
1,440
buildings on the model
18
named streets
36
named places
31
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 Q1025558). 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.

Back to Louisburgh·Getting to Louisburgh·County Mayo