Carney
Carney is a village on the Maugherow Peninsula in County Sligo, Ireland. It is 8 km north of Sligo town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 395 residents
- Description: village in County Sligo, Ireland
- Also known as: “Carney, County Sligo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Columba’s Church, Drumcliff and Lower Rosses Lighthouse.
St Columba’s Church, Drumcliff
Church
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Columba's Church is a parish church of the Church of Ireland, located in the village of Drumcliff, County Sligo. It is best known for its association with William Butler Yeats, who was buried in the churchyard in 1948, having previously been buried close to where he died, in France. St Columba’s Church, Drumcliff is situated 2½ km southeast of Carney.
Lower Rosses Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: MikaLaureque, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lower Rosses Lighthouse is situated 3 km southwest of Carney.
Lissadell House
House
Photo: Aspdin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lissadell House is a neo-classical Greek revivalist style country house in County Sligo, Ireland. The house was built between 1830 and 1835 for Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Baronet by London architect Francis Goodwin. Lissadell House is situated 3½ km west of Carney.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Drumcliff and Rathcormack.
Drumcliff
Village
Photo: Ephemeral future, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Drumcliff or Drumcliffe is a village in County Sligo, Ireland. It is 8 km north of Sligo town on the N15 road on a low gravel ridge between the mountain of Ben Bulben and Drumcliff Bay.
Rathcormack
Locality
Photo: Brian Herrity, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rathcormack or Rathcormac is a village in County Sligo, Ireland. It is 6 km north of Sligo town on the N15 road between Benbulbin mountain and the sea. Rathcormack is situated 4 km southeast of Carney.
Rosses Point
Photo: Gerry Gallagher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosses Point is a village in County Sligo with a population of 900 in 2022. It's a fishing village at the outflow of Sligo Bay, and "Ross" means the peninsula between that and Drumcliffe Bay further north.
Carney
- Category: village
- Location: County Sligo, Connacht, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.34056° or 54° 20′ 26″ northLongitude
-8.52722° or 8° 31′ 38″ westPopulation
395Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)Open location code
9C6H8FRF+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 52250464OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
2965759Wikidata ID
Q2566968
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Carney” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Carney”
- Cebuano: “Carney”
- Dutch: “Carney”
- Georgian: “კარნი”
- Irish: “Fearann Uí Chearnaigh”
- Polish: “Carney”
- Russian: “Карни”
- Spanish: “Carney”
- Swedish: “Carney, Irland”
- Swedish: “Carney”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Carney”. Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.