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About Rosses Point

Rosses Point, An Ros in Irish, is a village in County Sligo, 119 km north of Galway, with 872 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R291 and L3311. The map gives it 745 buildings and 12 named streets, with 35 places named on them in 36 kinds, and 183 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 11th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Population
872 at the 2006 census
Where
119 km north of Galway, 185 km from Dublin
Position
54.3059° N, 8.5589° W
Roads
R291 and L3311
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
745 buildings, 12 streets, 35 named places in 36 kinds
Clubhouse of the County Sligo Golf Club at Rosses Point, Ireland
Clubhouse of the County Sligo Golf Club at Rosses Point, Ireland·Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Clubhouse of the County Sligo Golf Club at Rosses Point, Ireland
Clubhouse of the County Sligo Golf Club at Rosses Point, Ireland·Bernard Gagnon, 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 183 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R291 and L3311 running through Rosses Point. 7 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: S N Réalt Na Mara.

Questions people ask

Where is Rosses Point?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 119 km north of Galway and 185 km from Dublin, on the R291 and L3311.
How big is Rosses Point?
872 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 745 buildings and 12 named streets.
What is there to see in Rosses Point?
183 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Waiting on Shore, Curraghmore and The Old Watchhouse.
How do you get to Rosses Point?
1 bus and train line calls at 9 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.
745
buildings on the model
12
named streets
35
named places
36
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 Q2487413). 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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