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About Shrule

Shrule, Shruthair in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 27 km north of Galway. It stands on the N84, L1615 and L2104. The map gives it 2,048 buildings and 9 named streets, with 38 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 124 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
362, as the map records it
Where
27 km north of Galway, 188 km from Dublin
Position
53.5200° N, 9.0878° W, 64 m above sea level
Roads
N84, L1615 and L2104
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
2,048 buildings, 9 streets, 38 named places in 26 kinds
Castles of Connacht: Kinlough, Mayo (1)
Castles of Connacht: Kinlough, Mayo (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Shrule Abbey, Shrule, Co, Mayo.
Shrule Abbey, Shrule, Co, Mayo.·Bmcgeene, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 124 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N84, L1615 and L2104 running through Shrule.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Shrule?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 27 km north of Galway and 188 km from Dublin, on the N84, L1615 and L2104.
How big is Shrule?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,048 buildings, 9 named streets and 38 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Shrule?
124 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Shrule Castle, Shrule Abbey and St. Colman's Church.
How do you get to Shrule?
2 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Burkesbus 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.
2,048
buildings on the model
9
named streets
38
named places
26
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 Q2085874). 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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