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Longford
County Longford · Leinster

About Longford

Longford, An Longfort in Irish, is a town in County Longford, 97 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N4, N5 and N63. The map gives it 5,787 buildings and 150 named streets, with 134 places named on them in 74 kinds, and 42 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Population
6,400, as the map records it
Where
97 km north-east of Galway, 110 km from Dublin
Position
53.7278° N, 7.7964° W, 72 m above sea level
Roads
N4, N5, N63, R194, R198, R393, L1001 and L1101
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
5,787 buildings, 150 streets, 134 named places in 74 kinds
Altar relief the Immaculate Conception Altar, depicting the Annunciation. The altar is scarred from the 2009 fire in the cathedral.
Altar relief the Immaculate Conception Altar, depicting the Annunciation. The altar is scarred from the 2009 fire in the cathedral.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Immaculate Conception Altar in the west transept (liturgically north). The altar is scarred from the 2009 fire in the cathedral.
Immaculate Conception Altar in the west transept (liturgically north). The altar is scarred from the 2009 fire in the cathedral.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Longford in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1865 to 1999. That is not a history of Longford, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

18651999Saint Mel's CollegeIrish Prison Service
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

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 42 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N4, N5, N63, R194, R198, R393, L1001 and L1101 running through Longford. 7 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 15 lines call at 33 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

7 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Longford?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 97 km north-east of Galway and 110 km from Dublin, on the N4, N5 and N63.
How big is Longford?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 5,787 buildings, 150 named streets and 134 named places, which by building count makes it the largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Longford?
42 things the map records in and around it, the closest being War of Independence Memorial, First World War Memorial and Albert Reynolds Peace Park.
How do you get to Longford?
15 bus and train lines call at 33 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Farrelly's Coaches and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Longford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 115,491 people in the county in 1841 and 46,751 in 2022.
5,787
buildings on the model
150
named streets
134
named places
74
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 Q645623). 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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