Cong
Cong is a small village in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, with a population in 2016 of only 145. It has a ruined abbey and a plush castle hotel, but is best known as the film location for The Quiet Man.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: ArséniureDeGallium, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Zertrin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 145 residents
- Description: village in County Galway and County Mayo, Ireland
- Also known as: “Cong, County Mayo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Quiet Man Cottage Museum and Glebe Stone Circles.
Quiet Man Cottage Museum
Museum
The Quiet Man Cottage Museum is a museum located in Cong, County Mayo, Ireland. It is a replica of the cottage used in John Ford's 1951 film The Quiet Man starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald.
Glebe Stone Circles
Archaeological site
Photo: C Michael Hogan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glebe Stone Circles are standing stones and National Monument located in County Mayo, Ireland.
Kelly’s Cave
Cave
Kelly's Cave is a limestone solutional cave and National Monument in County Mayo, Ireland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cloonbur.
Cloonbur
Village
Photo: Burkesclonbur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cong is a small village in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, with a population in 2016 of only 145. It has a ruined abbey and a plush castle hotel, but is best known as the film location for The Quiet Man. Cloonbur is situated 5 km west of Cong.
Cong
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Mayo, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.5408° or 53° 32′ 27″ northLongitude
-9.2859° or 9° 17′ 9″ westPopulation
145Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)Open location code
9C5GGPR7+8JOpenStreetMap ID
node 52269698OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2965239Wikidata ID
Q1125668
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Cong” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cong”
- Catalan: “Cong”
- Cebuano: “Cong”
- Chinese: “孔鎮”
- Chinese: “康鎮”
- Dutch: “Cong”
- French: “Cong”
- Georgian: “კონგი”
- German: “Cong”
- Hebrew: “קונג”
- Irish: “Conga Fheichín”
- Irish: “Conga”
- Italian: “Cong, County Mayo”
- Italian: “Cong”
- Japanese: “コング”
- Malay: “Cong, Daerah Mayo”
- Polish: “Cong”
- Russian: “Конг”
- Spanish: “Cong”
- Swedish: “Cong”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Cong”. Photo: Zertrin, CC BY-SA 3.0.