Skip to content
Sligo
County Sligo · Connacht

About Toorlestraun

Toorlestraun, Tuar Loistreáin in Irish, is a village in County Sligo, 86 km north of Galway. It stands on the L4804. The map gives it 447 buildings and 1 named street, with 6 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 74 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Where
86 km north of Galway, 186 km from Dublin
Position
54.0382° N, 8.8429° W, 58 m above sea level
Roads
L4804
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
447 buildings, 1 street, 6 named places in 12 kinds

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 74 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L4804 running through Toorlestraun.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Our Lady's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Toorlestraun?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 86 km north of Galway and 186 km from Dublin, on the L4804.
How big is Toorlestraun?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 447 buildings, 1 named street and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 24th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
What is there to see in Toorlestraun?
74 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Sacred Heart Statue, Dermot & Grania's Bed and Caltragh.
How do you get to Toorlestraun?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 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.
447
buildings on the model
1
named streets
6
named places
12
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 Q2091011). 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.

Back to Toorlestraun·Getting to Toorlestraun·County Sligo