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About Drumcliff

Drumcliff, Droim Chliabh in Irish, is a village in County Sligo, 123 km north of Galway. It stands on the L3402. The map gives it 744 buildings and 6 named streets, with 23 places named on them in 34 kinds, and 199 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Where
123 km north of Galway, 183 km from Dublin
Position
54.3286° N, 8.5001° W, 8 m above sea level
Roads
L3402
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
744 buildings, 6 streets, 23 named places in 34 kinds
N15 at Drumcliff Tower
N15 at Drumcliff Tower·Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Drumcliffe High Crosses
Drumcliffe High Crosses·Becky McReynolds, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 199 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L3402 running through Drumcliff. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Rathcormac Primary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Drumcliff?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 123 km north of Galway and 183 km from Dublin, on the L3402.
How big is Drumcliff?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 744 buildings, 6 named streets and 23 named places, which by building count makes it the 12th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
What is there to see in Drumcliff?
199 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Drumcliff Round Tower, Drumcliff Graveyard and castle.
How do you get to Drumcliff?
3 bus and train lines call at 5 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.
744
buildings on the model
6
named streets
23
named places
34
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 Q910059). 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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