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About Tobercurry

Tobercurry, Tobar an Choire in Irish, is a town in County Sligo, 89 km north of Galway. It stands on the N17, R294 and L4502. The map gives it 3,393 buildings and 32 named streets, with 64 places named on them in 43 kinds, and 53 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Where
89 km north of Galway, 180 km from Dublin
Position
54.0539° N, 8.7306° W, 92 m above sea level
Area
2.26 km²
Roads
N17, R294, L4502 and L4703
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
3,393 buildings, 32 streets, 64 named places in 43 kinds
Fabulous Fifteen Fiddlers CCE Monument (Tubbercurry, County Sligo)
Fabulous Fifteen Fiddlers CCE Monument (Tubbercurry, County Sligo)·Cfvesey, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Steam train at Rathscanlan geograph.org.uk 3121522
Steam train at Rathscanlan geograph.org.uk 3121522·The Carlisle Kid, 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 53 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N17, R294, L4502 and L4703 running through Tobercurry.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: St. Attractas Secondary School, Sligo College of Further Education and Training - Tubbercurry Campus, Holy Family National School and Moylough National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Tobercurry?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 89 km north of Galway and 180 km from Dublin, on the N17, R294 and L4502.
How big is Tobercurry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,393 buildings, 32 named streets and 64 named places, which by building count makes it the 2th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
What is there to see in Tobercurry?
53 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rathscanlon Fort, Toberaraght and Tulach Oisin, Oisin's Mound.
How do you get to Tobercurry?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda and Bus Éireann.
Has County Sligo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 180,886 people in the county in 1841 and 70,198 in 2022.
3,393
buildings on the model
32
named streets
64
named places
43
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 Q2096512). 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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