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About Castlerea

Castlerea, An Caisleán Riabhach in Irish, is a town in County Roscommon, 66 km north-east of Galway, with 2,344 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the N60 and R377. The map gives it 3,153 buildings and 9 named streets, with 43 places named on them in 33 kinds, and 42 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Population
2,344 at the 2022 census
Where
66 km north-east of Galway, 154 km from Dublin
Position
53.7665° N, 8.4872° W, 82 m above sea level
Area
2.29 km²
Roads
N60 and R377
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
3,153 buildings, 9 streets, 43 named places in 33 kinds
Main Street, Castlerea, County Roscommon, Ireland
Main Street, Castlerea, County Roscommon, Ireland·Darren J. Prior, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Passing trains at Castlerea station (geograph 6123439)
Passing trains at Castlerea station (geograph 6123439)·Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castlerea in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the fourteenth century to 1996. That is not a history of Castlerea, 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.

the fourteenth century1996Ballintober CastleCastlerea Prison
The fourteenth century
The twentieth century

County Roscommon 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.

253,59151,89770,25918412022

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 42 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N60 and R377 running through Castlerea.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 7 lines call at 25 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Tarmon National School, St Pauls National School and Castlerea Community School.

Questions people ask

Where is Castlerea?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 66 km north-east of Galway and 154 km from Dublin, on the N60 and R377.
How big is Castlerea?
2,344 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 3,153 buildings and 9 named streets.
What is there to see in Castlerea?
42 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Workhouse Memorial, Drimdoolin House and Clonalis House.
How do you get to Castlerea?
7 bus and train lines call at 25 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
3,153
buildings on the model
9
named streets
43
named places
33
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 Q1049654). 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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