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County Monaghan
Drumcrew Lough
Drumcrew Lough covers 1 ha with 420 m of shore in County Monaghan, 1.3 km north-west of Castleblayney.
Getting to the water
A public road or path on the map comes within 29 m of the shore, along about 150 m of it, and there is one more stretch like it elsewhere on the shore. That is what the map contains. It is not a statement that the public may walk there, because OpenStreetMap does not record permission, and nobody has checked this lake against its owner.
1 ha
of water
420 m
of shore
2
stretches of shore a way reaches
1
viewpoints within 2.5 km
- Area
- 1 ha measured from the mapped outline
- Shore
- 420 m around the outline
- County
- County Monaghan
- Public access
- A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
- On the map
- OpenStreetMap record
No openly licensed photograph of Drumcrew Lough was found. Rather than show a picture of somewhere else, this page shows none.
Where it is
The pin sits from the main access point on the shore, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in County Monaghan.
Directions in
Parking, viewpoints and stops
Everything here is measured from the main access point on the shore. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.
Parking
An unnamed car park is 490 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 780 m along mapped paths. The map records nothing about a charge.
Viewpoints
- An unnamed viewpoint2.5 km
Nearest stops
- An unnamed stop610 m
- An unnamed stop670 m
- Castleblayney1.1 km
- Castleblayney1.1 km
Getting to Drumcrew Lough
About these directions
Public transport times come from National Transport Authority. Timetables cover 2026-09-18 to 2027-09-19. These are scheduled services; check with the operator for cancellations and changes before travelling.
Walking and driving times are estimates. A town search starts at its centre; choose your location or a point on the map for a more precise starting point. Eircode search is not available.
How journey planning worksDestination, access and nearby stops
Drumcrew Lough is in Castleblayney, County Monaghan. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground. A car park is recorded 780 m from the water, about 10 minutes on foot.
Castleblayney is the nearest settlement, 1.3 km north-west of the lake. Arriving in Castleblayney is not arriving at the water, so the journeys below are worked out to the water and say so when they cannot reach it.
Stops near it
The nearest scheduled stop is Castleblayney College (15470), 610 m away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.
- Castleblayney College 610 m
bus CB1Scheduled departures from this stop
- Castleblayney Coll 640 m
bus DK01Scheduled departures from this stop
- Castleblayney 1.1 km
buses 32, 182, MN2, 162, 180 and GD01Scheduled departures from this stop
- Our Lady's School 1.3 km
bus CB1Scheduled departures from this stop
Getting to Castleblayney covers the journeys into the town itself.
The nearest other lakes
Ordered by distance from the main access point on the shore, in a straight line, which is the same point and the same measure as the figures beside them.
Questions people ask
Can you walk to Drumcrew Lough?
A public road or path comes within 29 m of the shore, along about 150 m of it. That is what the map shows; it is not a statement of permission, which the map does not record.
How big is Drumcrew Lough?
1 ha, with 420 m of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds, which is made of 2 records merged into one lake here.
Where can you park for Drumcrew Lough?
A car park is 490 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 780 m along mapped paths.
How do you get to Drumcrew Lough without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Castleblayney College, 600 m from the main access point on the shore in a straight line, and bus CB1 call there, run by TFI Local Link Cavan Monaghan. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop, and where no footway joins it to the water it says so rather than making a number up.
Where this comes from
- The lake itself
- The outline, the name and the identifiers are OpenStreetMap records, 2 of them merged here into one lake. Correct it there
- What this site measured
- The area and the shore are worked out from that outline. The stretches of shore a way reaches, the walk in from a car park and every distance on this page are worked out here, on this site’s own graph of the OpenStreetMap ways, last built on 2026-09-20. These are this site’s calculations, not the map’s, and a mistake in them is a mistake here.