Rosses Point
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.
- Type: Village with 824 residents
- Description: village in County Sligo, Ireland
- Also known as: “Rosses Upper”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Coney Island and Oyster Island Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Strandhill and Sligo.
Drumcliffe
Village
Rosses Point
- Category: locality
- Location: County Sligo, Connacht, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.3059° or 54° 18′ 21″ north
Longitude
-8.5589° or 8° 33′ 32″ west
Population
824
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IE RSS
Open location code
9C6H8C4R+9C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Rosses Point” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rosses Point”
- Aragonese: “Rosses Point”
- Arpitan: “Rosses Point”
- Asturian: “Rosses Point”
- Bambara: “Rosses Point”
- Basque: “Rosses Point”
- Bavarian: “Rosses Point”
- Breton: “Rosses Point”
- Cajun French: “Rosses Point”
- Catalan: “Rosses Point”
- Cebuano: “Rosses Point”
- Chinese: “羅西斯波因特”
- Corsican: “Rosses Point”
- Croatian: “Rosses Point”
- Czech: “Rosses Point”
- Danish: “Rosses Point”
- Dutch: “Rosses Point”
- Esperanto: “Rosses Point”
- Estonian: “Rosses Point”
- Finnish: “Rosses Point”
- French: “Rosses Point”
- Friulian: “Rosses Point”
- Galician: “Rosses Point”
- Georgian: “როსის პოინტი”
- Georgian: “როსის-პოინტი”
- German: “Rosses Point”
- Hungarian: “Rosses Point”
- Ido: “Rosses Point”
- Indonesian: “Rosses Point”
- Interlingua: “Rosses Point”
- Interlingue: “Rosses Point”
- Irish: “An Ros, Contae Shligigh”
- Irish: “An Ros”
- Irish: “Ros Cheide”
- Italian: “Rosses Point”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Rosses Point”
- Japanese: “ロッセス・ポイント”
- Jèrriais: “Rosses Point”
- Kabyle: “Rosses Point”
- Kongo: “Rosses Point”
- Latvian: “Rosses Point”
- Ligurian: “Rosses Point”
- Limburgan: “Rosses Point”
- Lithuanian: “Rosses Point”
- Low German: “Rosses Point”
- Luxembourgish: “Rosses Point”
- Mainfränkisch: “Rosses Point”
- Malagasy: “Rosses Point”
- Malay: “Rosses Point”
- Manx: “An Ros, Coontae Shliggee”
- Manx: “An Ros”
- Minangkabau: “Rosses Point”
- Neapolitan: “Rosses Point”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rosses Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rosses Point”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Rosses Point”
- Papiamento: “Rosses Point”
- Picard: “Rosses Point”
- Piemontese: “Rosses Point”
- Polish: “Rosses Point”
- Portuguese: “Rosses Point”
- Prussian: “Rosses Point”
- Romagnol: “Rosses Point”
- Romanian: “Rosses Point”
- Romansh: “Rosses Point”
- Russian: “Россес-Пойнт”
- Sardinian: “Rosses Point”
- Scots: “Rosses Point”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rosses Point”
- Serbian: “Rosses Point”
- Sicilian: “Rosses Point”
- Slovak: “Rosses Point”
- Spanish: “Rosses Point”
- Swahili: “Rosses Point”
- Swedish: “Rosses Point”
- Swiss German: “Rosses Point”
- Turkish: “Rosses Point”
- Venetian: “Rosses Point”
- Vietnamese: “Rosses Point”
- Vlaams: “Rosses Point”
- Volapük: “Rosses Point”
- Walloon: “Rosses Point”
- Welsh: “Rosses Point”
- Wolof: “Rosses Point”
- Zulu: “Rosses Point”
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