About Kesh
Kesh, An Chéis in Irish, is a village in County Sligo, 95 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 346 buildings and 0 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 102 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 30th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
- Where
- 95 km north-east of Galway, 164 km from Dublin
- Position
- 54.0507° N, 8.4459° W
- Governed
- Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
- On the model
- 346 buildings, 0 streets, 13 named places in 16 kinds
Kesh in order
5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 40th century to 1590. That is not a history of Kesh, 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 sixth centuryEmlaghfad Church (ruins)Ruins · 4.9 km from the centre
- 1300Ballymote CastleCastles · 6.3 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
- 1488Cloonameehan FriaryRuins · 9.5 km from the centre
- 1590Ballinafad CastleCastles · 7.7 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
- the 40th centuryCarrowkeel neolithic siteRingforts and sites · 4.4 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
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.
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.
- Kesh Corann1.3 kmHills
- Cairn1.3 kmRingforts and sites
- Feenagh Lough1.4 kmLakes
- St. Kevins Church1.6 kmRuins
- Feenagh Lough1.6 kmLakes
- Kingstone Well1.7 kmHoly wells
- Bunnamuck Lough1.7 kmLakes
- Lough Gowra1.8 kmLakes
- Sheecor Cairn1.8 kmRingforts and sites
- Lough Labe2.0 kmLakes
- Giants Graves2.0 kmRingforts and sites
- Lough Daven2.2 kmLakes
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Kesh; the roads it does record are local.
1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.
1 school or college on the map: Keash National School.
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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.