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About Cliffoney

Cliffoney, Cliafuine in Irish, is a village in County Sligo, 134 km north of Galway, with 425 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R279. The map gives it 620 buildings and 7 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 69 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Population
425 at the 2006 census
Where
134 km north of Galway, 187 km from Dublin
Position
54.4303° N, 8.4538° W, 30 m above sea level
Roads
R279
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
620 buildings, 7 streets, 15 named places in 26 kinds
Classiebawn Castle on the Mullaghmore Peninsula near Cliffoney, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland.
Classiebawn Castle on the Mullaghmore Peninsula near Cliffoney, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland.·Tony Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street, Cliffony
Main Street, Cliffony·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Sligo 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.

180,88650,27570,19818412022

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 69 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R279 running through Cliffoney.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Cliffoney National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Cliffoney?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 134 km north of Galway and 187 km from Dublin, on the R279.
How big is Cliffoney?
425 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 620 buildings and 7 named streets.
What is there to see in Cliffoney?
69 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St. Bridget's Well, Trawalua Strand and Lisheen.
How do you get to Cliffoney?
3 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim.
Has County Sligo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 180,886 people in the county in 1841 and 70,198 in 2022.
620
buildings on the model
7
named streets
15
named places
26
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 Q2668607). 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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