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County Monaghan

Lough Avattan

Lough Avattan covers 4 ha with 900 m of shore in County Monaghan, 4.8 km south of Shercock.

Getting to the water

A public road or path on the map comes within 33 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.

4 ha
of water
900 m
of shore
2
stretches of shore a way reaches
Area
4 ha measured from the mapped outline
Shore
900 m around the outline
Public access
A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission

No openly licensed photograph of Lough Avattan 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.

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 1.4 km away, and the walk from it to the shore is 1.6 km along mapped paths. The map records nothing about a charge.

Viewpoints

None mapped within 2.5 km.

Nearest stops

No bus stop or station is mapped within two kilometres.

Getting to Lough Avattan

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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.

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How journey planning works
Destination, access and nearby stops

Lough Avattan is in Shercock, County Cavan. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground. A car park is recorded 1628 m from the water, about 20 minutes on foot.

Shercock is the nearest settlement, 4.8 km south of the lake. Arriving in Shercock 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

No scheduled stop was found within 2.5 km of Lough Avattan. On-demand services may not be included.

Getting to Shercock 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 Lough Avattan?
A public road or path comes within 33 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 Lough Avattan?
4 ha, with 900 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 Lough Avattan?
A car park is 1.4 km away, and the walk from it to the shore is 1.6 km along mapped paths.
How do you get to Lough Avattan without a car?
No scheduled bus or train in the national timetable reaches Shercock, the nearest settlement.

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.