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About Turlough

Turlough, Turlach in Irish, is a village in County Mayo, 69 km north of Galway. It stands on the N5 and L1719. The map gives it 628 buildings and 8 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 136 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 33th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
69 km north of Galway, 204 km from Dublin
Position
53.8833° N, 9.2167° W, 28 m above sea level
Roads
N5 and L1719
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
628 buildings, 8 streets, 10 named places in 20 kinds
Turlough Park, National Museum of Ireland - Country Life
Turlough Park, National Museum of Ireland - Country Life·Cawlef, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Turlough Park; shwoing the Museum of Country Life and looking towards Turlough Round Tower
Turlough Park; shwoing the Museum of Country Life and looking towards Turlough Round Tower·AnRoache, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Turlough in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1252 to 2001. That is not a history of Turlough, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

12522001Strade AbbeyNational Museum of Ireland, Country Life
The thirteenth century
  • 1252Strade AbbeyHistoric churches · 7.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the thirteenth centuryBallylahan CastleCastles · 9.3 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland, national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth century
The twenty-first century

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 136 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N5 and L1719 running through Turlough.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Turlough?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 69 km north of Galway and 204 km from Dublin, on the N5 and L1719.
How big is Turlough?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 628 buildings, 8 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 33th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Turlough?
136 things the map records in and around it, the closest being River Wood, Woodland Playground and Sunken Garden.
How do you get to Turlough?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Mayo.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
628
buildings on the model
8
named streets
10
named places
20
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 Q7855592). 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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