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About Abbeylara

Abbeylara, Mainistir Leathrátha in Irish, is a village in County Longford, 91 km north-west of Dublin. The map gives it 59 buildings and 0 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 84 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 19th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Where
91 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.7653° N, 7.4490° W, 82 m above sea level
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
59 buildings, 0 streets, 11 named places in 16 kinds
Photograph of Abbeylara Abbey, Co. Longford, Republic of Ireland
Photograph of Abbeylara Abbey, Co. Longford, Republic of Ireland·JohnArmagh, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
County Longford, Abbeylara Monastery.
County Longford, Abbeylara Monastery.·Gillaween, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Longford since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

115,49128,25046,75118412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 84 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Abbeylara; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Abbeylara National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Abbeylara?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 91 km north-west of Dublin and 91 km from Dublin.
How big is Abbeylara?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 59 buildings, 0 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 19th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Abbeylara?
84 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tobernamanneeve, Cistercian Abbey and Dunclá or Black Pigs Race.
How do you get to Abbeylara?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Longford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 115,491 people in the county in 1841 and 46,751 in 2022.
59
buildings on the model
0
named streets
11
named places
16
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q2528811). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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