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County Westmeath
Lough Iron
Loch Iarainn
Lough Iron covers 45 ha with 5.3 km of shore in County Westmeath, 2.3 km north of Ballinalack.
Getting to the water
No public road or path on the map comes within sixty metres of any part of this shore. That may be because the land around it is private, or only because nobody has mapped the way in. Nothing here tells the two apart, so this page says neither.
45 ha
of water
5.3 km
of shore
0
stretches of shore a way reaches
- Area
- 45 ha measured from the mapped outline
- Shore
- 5.3 km around the outline
- Published area
- 182 ha Wikidata
- County
- County Westmeath
- In Irish
- Loch Iarainn
- Public access
- No public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
- On the map
- OpenStreetMap record
No openly licensed photograph of Lough Iron was found. Rather than show a picture of somewhere else, this page shows none.
Where it is
The pin sits from the middle of the water, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in County Westmeath.
Directions in
Parking, viewpoints and stops
Everything here is measured from the middle of the water. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.
Parking
No mapped car park within two kilometres has a walking route to this shore. That is a gap in the map rather than a statement that there is nowhere to park.
Viewpoints
None mapped within 2.5 km.
Nearest stops
No bus stop or station is mapped within two kilometres.
Getting to Lough Iron
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
Lough Iron is in Ballinalack, County Westmeath. The only point the map gives for this lake is the middle of the water, and no public way was found reaching its shore. Routes below stop where they can and say where that is.
Ballinalack is the nearest settlement, 2.3 km north of the lake. Arriving in Ballinalack 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 Ballinalack (131271), 2.3 km away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.
- Ballinalack 2.3 km
buses 22, 23 and 816Scheduled departures from this stop
Getting to Ballinalack covers the journeys into the town itself.
The nearest other lakes
Ordered by distance from the middle of the water, in a straight line, which is the same point and the same measure as the figures beside them.
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Questions people ask
Can you walk to Lough Iron?
No public road or path on the map comes within sixty metres of any part of the shore. That may mean the ground around it is private, or only that nobody has mapped the way in. This page does not say which, because it does not know.
How big is Lough Iron?
45 ha, with 5.3 km of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds. Wikidata publishes 182 ha, which is a different measurement rather than a correction of this one.
Where can you park for Lough Iron?
The map records no car park within two kilometres that a walking route reaches. That is a gap in the map rather than a statement that there is nowhere to park.
How do you get to Lough Iron without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Ballinalack, 2.3 km from the middle of the water in a straight line, and buses 22, 23 and 816 call there, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon. 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. Correct it there Figures marked Wikidata come from Q6686126.
- 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.