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Rosses Point

Rosses Point is a village in 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.
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  • Type: Village with 824 residents
  • Description: village in County Sligo, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Rosses Upper”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Coney Island and Oyster Island Lighthouse.

Island
or Inishmulclohy is an island in , Ireland. It lies across the mouth of Sligo Harbour, between Rosses Point and the Coolera Peninsula, and can be reached from the latter via a tidal causeway.

Lighthouse
Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church
Photo: Djedi Guy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Strandhill and Sligo.

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is a village in , 9 km west of Sligo town on the south shore of the bay, with a population in 2022 of 2000. Its name is apt: a great expanse of strand before it and a steep hill behind, the scarp of Knocknarea.

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is the principal town in in Northwest Ireland & Lakelands. In 2022 it had a population of 21,000, with the service sector the main employer.

Village
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or Drumcliffe is a village in , Ireland. It is 8 km north of on the N15 road on a low gravel ridge between the mountain of Ben Bulben and Bay. is situated 4½ km northeast of Rosses Point.

Rosses Point

Latitude
54.3059° or 54° 18′ 21″ north
Longitude
-8.5589° or 8° 33′ 32″ west
Population
824
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IE RSS
Open location code
9C6H8C4R+9C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52256552
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2961700
Wiki­data ID
Q2487413
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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”
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  • 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”
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  • Estonian: “Rosses Point”
  • Finnish: “Rosses Point”
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  • 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”
  • Kabyle: “Rosses Point”
  • Kongo: “Rosses Point”
  • Latvian: “Rosses Point”
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  • 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”
  • Narom: “Rosses Point”
  • Neapolitan: “Rosses Point”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rosses Point”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rosses Point”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rosses Point”
  • Papiamento: “Rosses Point”
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  • Polish: “Rosses Point”
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  • 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”
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  • 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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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 “Rosses Point”. Photo: Gerry Gallagher, CC BY-SA 2.0.