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About Gorteen

Gorteen, Goirtín in Irish, is a village in County Sligo, 87 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R294. The map gives it 699 buildings and 3 named streets, with 18 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 68 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Where
87 km north-east of Galway, 165 km from Dublin
Position
53.9928° N, 8.5108° W, 82 m above sea level
Roads
R294
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
699 buildings, 3 streets, 18 named places in 25 kinds
Gurteen Cross and Coleman Music Centre
Gurteen Cross and Coleman Music Centre·Djm-leighpark, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
O'Grady's Filling station and shop at Gurteen, Co Sligo
O'Grady's Filling station and shop at Gurteen, Co Sligo·Djm-leighpark, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Gorteen in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 40th century to 1488. That is not a history of Gorteen, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the 40th century1488Carrowkeel neolithic siteCloonameehan Friary
The sixth century
The thirteenth century
  • 1300Ballymote CastleCastles · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
The 40th century

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 68 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R294 running through Gorteen.

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

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

Questions people ask

Where is Gorteen?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 87 km north-east of Galway and 165 km from Dublin, on the R294.
How big is Gorteen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 699 buildings, 3 named streets and 18 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
What is there to see in Gorteen?
68 things the map records in and around it, the closest being altar, Kilfree House and Derrynagraug Lough.
How do you get to Gorteen?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 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.
699
buildings on the model
3
named streets
18
named places
25
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 Q2086240). 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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