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About Cloondara

Cloondara, Cluain Dá Ráth in Irish, is a village in County Longford, 91 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N5, L1170 and L1171. The map gives it 45 buildings and 10 named streets, with 7 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 29 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Where
91 km north-east of Galway, 117 km from Dublin
Position
53.7313° N, 7.9059° W, 66 m above sea level
Roads
N5, L1170 and L1171
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
45 buildings, 10 streets, 7 named places in 14 kinds
Stobart Ireland L7574 "Kim Lesley" (12 D 20868) 2012 Scania G400, 13 October 2013
Stobart Ireland L7574 "Kim Lesley" (12 D 20868) 2012 Scania G400, 13 October 2013·Peter Mooney, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Stobart Ireland L7576 "Sharon Jayne" (12 D 20870) 2012 Scania G400, 13 October 2013
Stobart Ireland L7576 "Sharon Jayne" (12 D 20870) 2012 Scania G400, 13 October 2013·Peter Mooney, CC BY-SA 2.0 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 29 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N5, L1170 and L1171 running through Cloondara.

By bus or train

2 lines call 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: Cloondara National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Cloondara?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 91 km north-east of Galway and 117 km from Dublin, on the N5, L1170 and L1171.
How big is Cloondara?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 45 buildings, 10 named streets and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 23th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Cloondara?
29 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Royal Canal, 45th Lock Keeper's House and Corlehan Wood.
How do you get to Cloondara?
2 bus and train lines call 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.
45
buildings on the model
10
named streets
7
named places
14
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 Q3680912). 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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