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About Collooney

Collooney, Cúil Mhuine in Irish, is a town in County Sligo, 108 km north of Galway. It stands on the N17, N4 and R290. The map gives it 1,955 buildings and 34 named streets, with 58 places named on them in 41 kinds, and 186 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Where
108 km north of Galway, 174 km from Dublin
Position
54.1837° N, 8.4925° W, 62 m above sea level
Roads
N17, N4, R290, L1302, L3600, L3606, L36072 and L3609
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,955 buildings, 34 streets, 58 named places in 41 kinds
Part of the Sligo Way in the townland of Ballygawley/ Ballydawley
Part of the Sligo Way in the townland of Ballygawley/ Ballydawley·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Sallow Island crannog seen from the Eastern shore of the lake (with wellies on). The lake is very shallow, but silted up.
Sallow Island crannog seen from the Eastern shore of the lake (with wellies on). The lake is very shallow, but silted up.·A.-K. D., CC0 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 186 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N17, N4, R290, L1302, L3600, L3606, L36072 and L3609 running through Collooney. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 14 lines call at 19 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Mary Immaculate Girls National School, Saint Josephs National School and Saint Paul's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Collooney?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 108 km north of Galway and 174 km from Dublin, on the N17, N4 and R290.
How big is Collooney?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,955 buildings, 34 named streets and 58 named places, which by building count makes it the 5th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
What is there to see in Collooney?
186 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Fairgreen, Teeling Monument and Toberbride.
How do you get to Collooney?
14 bus and train lines call at 19 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Sligo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 180,886 people in the county in 1841 and 70,198 in 2022.
1,955
buildings on the model
34
named streets
58
named places
41
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 Q2436580). 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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