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About Rossport

Rossport, Ros Dumhach in Irish, is a village in County Mayo, 122 km north-west of Galway. The map gives it 273 buildings and 0 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 8 kinds, and 21 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 87th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
122 km north-west of Galway, 254 km from Dublin
Position
54.2817° N, 9.7997° W, 60 m above sea level
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
273 buildings, 0 streets, 8 named places in 8 kinds
The view from the road [1]
The view from the road [1]·Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The view from the road [2]
The view from the road [2]·Michael Dibb, 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 21 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

4 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Naisiúnta Ros Dumhach and Gaelcholáiste Chomáin.

Questions people ask

Where is Rossport?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 122 km north-west of Galway and 254 km from Dublin.
How big is Rossport?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 273 buildings, 0 named streets and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 87th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Rossport?
21 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rosdoagh Court Tomb, Glengad Beach and Glengad Beach.
How do you get to Rossport?
4 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Corduff Travel and McGrath Coaches.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
273
buildings on the model
0
named streets
8
named places
8
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 Q2566772). 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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