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About Dernacartha

Dernacartha is a village in County Roscommon, 80 km north of Galway. The map gives it 474 buildings and 0 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 36 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
80 km north of Galway, 170 km from Dublin
Position
53.9531° N, 8.6387° W
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
474 buildings, 0 streets, 2 named places in 12 kinds
Foggy day on the N5
Foggy day on the N5·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 36 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Colman's National School, Derrinabroc.

Questions people ask

Where is Dernacartha?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 80 km north of Galway and 170 km from Dublin.
How big is Dernacartha?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 474 buildings, 0 named streets and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 22th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Dernacartha?
36 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Bockagh Hill, Old Cave Burial Ground and Ardkill Old Child Burial Ground.
How do you get to Dernacartha?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
474
buildings on the model
0
named streets
2
named places
12
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. 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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