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Find your town in County Roscommon

Tenants signing in 2025 paid €1,092 a month on average across the county. County Roscommon had 70,259 people at the 2022 census. The strongest overall grade in County Roscommon belongs to Roscommon, which ranks #53 of 320 nationally. Census counts show County Roscommon up 8.9% from 2016 to 2022. Half the county’s households earned more than €51,009 in 2022, and half less.

2graded towns
22places with a page
Roscommonlargest · 6,555
#53 in IrelandRoscommonA−#106 in IrelandBoyleB+
The finder

Find a town that’s…

Each town’s place in the country is beside it.

2 towns · in national order

A−

Roscommon

Town · 6,555 people

StrongestA−SafetyB+Cost of livingLowestC−Walkability
B+

Boyle

Town · 2,915 people

StrongestA+Cost of livingBSafetyLowestDJobs & income
No overall grade

Towns without an overall grade

Each has its page and the subject grades it has; the reason it has no overall grade is beside it.

Ballaghaderreen2,387 people · under 2,500 residents: subject grades, no overall grade.Graded on its page: Safety C+, Cost of living A+, Health D, Jobs & income D−, Walkability C+, Hazard risk A−Castlerea2,348 people · under 2,500 residents: subject grades, no overall grade.Graded on its page: Safety C, Cost of living A+, Health C+, Jobs & income D, Walkability C+, Hazard risk C
Every town

18 smaller places in County Roscommon

With every town of 1,000 or more above, these are the remaining places in County Roscommon, A to Z: each has its page with its figures, too small for grades. The search at the top finds these too.

18 places under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
AthleagueBallinameenBallinloughBallintoberBallyforanBellanagareCloonfadCloontuskertCootehallElphinFrenchparkKeadewKnockcrogheryLoughglinnRooskyStrokestownTermonbarryTulsk
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Counties next to County Roscommon

The counties that share a border with it: each one’s places, and how many of its towns have an overall grade.

Galway57 places, 20 graded · #1 Salthill (A)Leitrim14 places, 1 gradedLongford12 places, 1 gradedMayo34 places, 6 graded · #1 Claremorris (A+)Offaly27 places, 4 gradedSligo21 places, 1 gradedWestmeath21 places, 4 graded

Questions about County Roscommon

How do the biggest towns in County Roscommon grade?

Boyle grades B+ overall, with its best grade in cost of living.

How does County Roscommon compare with the other counties?

On its report card, which sets official figures for the whole county beside how its towns grade, County Roscommon comes 3rd of 26 counties overall (A). It does best on safety and worst on walkability.

Is every town in County Roscommon on TownRatings?

Yes: every one has its page, listed here from the biggest town to the smallest place; size decides only how many grades a page carries.

Why isn’t my town ranked?

A county ranks its towns once five or more have an overall grade; County Roscommon has fewer, so its towns stand in national order. Ballaghaderreen and Castlerea have no overall grade; their pages show the grades they have, and why.

Photos: Roscommon, 瑞丽江的河水 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Boyle, Sarah777 at English Wikipedia (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking Irish towns against each other only, run #54 of 3 November 2026 · CSO, Census 2022 (population). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).

Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).