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About Murrisk

Murrisk is a village in County Mayo, 68 km north-west of Galway. The map gives it 425 buildings and 1 named street, with 21 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 93 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 60th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
68 km north-west of Galway, 228 km from Dublin
Position
53.7790° N, 9.6354° W, 70 m above sea level
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
425 buildings, 1 street, 21 named places in 24 kinds
Croagh Patrick, Irelands' Holy Mountain viewed from Clew Bay. December 2007
Croagh Patrick, Irelands' Holy Mountain viewed from Clew Bay. December 2007·Gary Miotla, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
National Famine Monument with Croagh Patrick in the background. Murrish, County Mayo.
National Famine Monument with Croagh Patrick in the background. Murrish, County Mayo.·Night of the Big Wind, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl 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 93 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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: Murrisk National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Murrisk?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 68 km north-west of Galway and 228 km from Dublin.
How big is Murrisk?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 425 buildings, 1 named street and 21 named places, which by building count makes it the 60th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Murrisk?
93 things the map records in and around it, the closest being National Famine Memorial, Marian Shrine and Murrisk Abbey.
How do you get to Murrisk?
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.
425
buildings on the model
1
named streets
21
named places
24
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 Q1243436). 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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