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About Ballycloghan

Ballycloghan is a village in County Longford, 98 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R393. The map gives it 49 buildings and 1 named street, with 3 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 48 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Where
98 km north-east of Galway, 101 km from Dublin
Position
53.6490° N, 7.7014° W
Roads
R393
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
49 buildings, 1 street, 3 named places in 16 kinds

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 48 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R393 running through Ballycloghan.

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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballycloghan?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 98 km north-east of Galway and 101 km from Dublin, on the R393.
How big is Ballycloghan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 49 buildings, 1 named street and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 22th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Ballycloghan?
48 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St. Brigid's Well, Ardagh Clock Tower and Church (ruins).
How do you get to Ballycloghan?
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.
49
buildings on the model
1
named streets
3
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. 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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