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About Elphin

Elphin, Ail Finn in Irish, is a town in County Roscommon, 85 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R368 and L1422. The map gives it 1,782 buildings and 6 named streets, with 27 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 125 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
85 km north-east of Galway, 139 km from Dublin
Position
53.8458° N, 8.1907° W, 83 m above sea level
Roads
R368 and L1422
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,782 buildings, 6 streets, 27 named places in 15 kinds
Church in Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland
Church in Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland·Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Elphin Windmill
Elphin Windmill·Pauline Leverett, 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 125 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R368 and L1422 running through Elphin.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 5 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 Elphin?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 85 km north-east of Galway and 139 km from Dublin, on the R368 and L1422.
How big is Elphin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,782 buildings, 6 named streets and 27 named places, which by building count makes it the 6th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Elphin?
125 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Elphin Cathedral Ruins, Jenny's Well and Frenchman's Well.
How do you get to Elphin?
5 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon and Westlink Coaches.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
1,782
buildings on the model
6
named streets
27
named places
15
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 Q3777965). 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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