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About Inishcrone

Inishcrone, Inis Crabhann in Irish, is a town in County Sligo, 104 km north of Galway. It stands on the R297, L2601 and L2605. The map gives it 2,816 buildings and 27 named streets, with 59 places named on them in 45 kinds, and 87 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Where
104 km north of Galway, 209 km from Dublin
Position
54.2132° N, 9.0935° W
Roads
R297, L2601 and L2605
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
2,816 buildings, 27 streets, 59 named places in 45 kinds
Main Street, Enniscrone [2]
Main Street, Enniscrone [2]·Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street, Enniscrone [1]
Main Street, Enniscrone [1]·Michael Dibb, 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 87 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R297, L2601 and L2605 running through Inishcrone.

By bus or train

1 line calls 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: Jesus and Mary Secondary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Inishcrone?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 104 km north of Galway and 209 km from Dublin, on the R297, L2601 and L2605.
How big is Inishcrone?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,816 buildings, 27 named streets and 59 named places, which by building count makes it the 4th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
What is there to see in Inishcrone?
87 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Enniscrone Beach, Castle Fields and Enniscrone ring forts.
How do you get to Inishcrone?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Sligo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 180,886 people in the county in 1841 and 70,198 in 2022.
2,816
buildings on the model
27
named streets
59
named places
45
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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