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About Dromore West

Dromore West, An Droim Mór Thiar in Irish, is a village in County Sligo, 109 km north of Galway. It stands on the N59 and L2204. The map gives it 769 buildings and 7 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 55 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 10th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Where
109 km north of Galway, 199 km from Dublin
Position
54.2491° N, 8.8753° W
Roads
N59 and L2204
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
769 buildings, 7 streets, 15 named places in 20 kinds
Parade of shops, Fair Green, Dromore West, Co. Sligo
Parade of shops, Fair Green, Dromore West, Co. Sligo·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Entering Dromore West near the R297 junction
Entering Dromore West near the R297 junction·C Michael Hogan, 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 55 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N59 and L2204 running through Dromore West.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 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 Dromore West?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 109 km north of Galway and 199 km from Dublin, on the N59 and L2204.
How big is Dromore West?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 769 buildings, 7 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 10th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
What is there to see in Dromore West?
55 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Dunneill Castle, Dromore West Presbyterian Church and Woodhill House.
How do you get to Dromore West?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Treacy Coaches.
Has County Sligo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 180,886 people in the county in 1841 and 70,198 in 2022.
769
buildings on the model
7
named streets
15
named places
20
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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