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About Swinford

Swinford, Béal Átha na Muice in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 75 km north of Galway, with 1,502 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N26, R320 and R375. The map gives it 3,422 buildings and 51 named streets, with 54 places named on them in 41 kinds, and 76 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
1,502 at the 2006 census
Where
75 km north of Galway, 189 km from Dublin
Position
53.9435° N, 8.9498° W, 65 m above sea level
Roads
N26, R320, R375 and L1303
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
3,422 buildings, 51 streets, 54 named places in 41 kinds
Market Street, Swinford
Market Street, Swinford·Pamela Norrington, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Pound Lane, rear of Market Street, Swinford
Pound Lane, rear of Market Street, Swinford·Pamela Norrington, 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 76 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N26, R320, R375 and L1303 running through Swinford. 6 car parks on the map.

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

4 school or colleges on the map: Saint Patricks, Scoil Muire & Treasa, Culmore NS and Swinford Vocational School - VEC.

Questions people ask

Where is Swinford?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 75 km north of Galway and 189 km from Dublin, on the N26, R320 and R375.
How big is Swinford?
1,502 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 3,422 buildings and 51 named streets.
What is there to see in Swinford?
76 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Swinford Playground, Youth Memorial Garden and Swinford Amenity Park.
How do you get to Swinford?
4 bus and train lines call 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.
3,422
buildings on the model
51
named streets
54
named places
41
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 Q2038011). 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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