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About Ardagh

Ardagh, Ardach in Irish, is a village in County Longford, 100 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 53 buildings and 1 named street, with 14 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 45 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 20th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Where
100 km north-east of Galway, 101 km from Dublin
Position
53.6674° N, 7.6939° W
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
53 buildings, 1 street, 14 named places in 20 kinds
Photograph of the remains of St Mel's Cathedral, Ardagh, Co. Longford, Republic of Ireland
Photograph of the remains of St Mel's Cathedral, Ardagh, Co. Longford, Republic of Ireland·JohnArmagh, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The western elevation of the ruins of the church of Saint Mel, Ardagh, County Longford. Viewed from the the corner of Saint Patrick's church on the same site across the graveyard.
The western elevation of the ruins of the church of Saint Mel, Ardagh, County Longford. Viewed from the the corner of Saint Patrick's church on the same site across the graveyard.·Laurel Lodged, CC BY-SA 3.0 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 45 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Ardagh; 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: Ardagh National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ardagh?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 100 km north-east of Galway and 101 km from Dublin.
How big is Ardagh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 53 buildings, 1 named street and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 20th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Ardagh?
45 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ardagh Clock Tower, Church (ruins) and Ardagh_play.
How do you get to Ardagh?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon.
Has County Longford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 115,491 people in the county in 1841 and 46,751 in 2022.
53
buildings on the model
1
named streets
14
named places
20
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 Q638453). 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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