About Riverstown
Riverstown, Baile idir dhá Abhainn in Irish, is a village in County Sligo, 104 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 668 buildings and 1 named street, with 12 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 121 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 14th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
- Where
- 104 km north-east of Galway, 165 km from Dublin
- Position
- 54.1297° N, 8.3971° W, 74 m above sea level
- Governed
- Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
- On the model
- 668 buildings, 1 street, 12 named places in 20 kinds
Riverstown in order
3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 40th century to 1300. That is not a history of Riverstown, 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 · 9.3 km from the centre
- 1300Ballymote CastleCastles · 9.3 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
- the 40th centuryCarrowkeel neolithic siteRingforts and sites · 8.2 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.
- Riverstown Folk Park150 mAttractions
- John Stenson240 mMonuments
- Johns Well310 mHoly wells
- Lough Meharth830 mLakes
- Lough Meharth1.1 kmLakes
- Behy Castle2.4 kmCastles
- 2.9 km
- Ardloy Lough3.1 kmLakes
- Lady's Well3.3 kmHoly wells
- James Morrison3.4 kmMonuments
- Ballynakill Church3.6 kmHistoric churches
- Loughymeenaghan3.8 kmLakes
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Riverstown; the roads it does record are local.
1 line calls at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.
1 school or college on the map: Taunagh 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 (item Q731480). 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.