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County Sligo · Connacht

About Strandhill

Strandhill, An Leathros in Irish, is a town in County Sligo, 115 km north of Galway. It stands on the R277, L3504 and L3505. The map gives it 1,857 buildings and 27 named streets, with 60 places named on them in 46 kinds, and 185 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Population
1,982, as the map records it
Where
115 km north of Galway, 184 km from Dublin
Position
54.2700° N, 8.5943° W, 62 m above sea level
Area
1.14 km²
Roads
R277, L3504 and L3505
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,857 buildings, 27 streets, 60 named places in 46 kinds
R292 E of Strandhill
R292 E of Strandhill·Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lower end of path leading from Strandhill up to Knocknarea
Lower end of path leading from Strandhill up to Knocknarea·Colin Park, 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 185 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R277, L3504 and L3505 running through Strandhill. 2 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

2 school or colleges on the map: Surf School and Scoil Asicus Naofa.

Questions people ask

Where is Strandhill?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 115 km north of Galway and 184 km from Dublin, on the R277, L3504 and L3505.
How big is Strandhill?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,857 buildings, 27 named streets and 60 named places, which by building count makes it the 6th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
What is there to see in Strandhill?
185 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Strandhill Playground, Super and Herdsman’s Hut.
How do you get to Strandhill?
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.
1,857
buildings on the model
27
named streets
60
named places
46
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 Q282407). 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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