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About Colehill

Colehill is a village in County Longford, 98 km east of Galway. The map gives it 68 buildings and 1 named street, with 2 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 59 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 14th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Where
98 km east of Galway, 98 km from Dublin
Position
53.5979° N, 7.6791° W
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
68 buildings, 1 street, 2 named places in 15 kinds
Colehill, County Longford (2), near to Abbeyshrule, Ireland. Farmhouse on the R399 in Colehill.
Colehill, County Longford (2), near to Abbeyshrule, Ireland. Farmhouse on the R399 in Colehill.·sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ratharney, County Longford (3), near to Abbeyshrule, Ireland. On the R399, Abbeyshrule two km away down a local road.
Ratharney, County Longford (3), near to Abbeyshrule, Ireland. On the R399, Abbeyshrule two km away down a local road.·sarah777, 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 59 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Colehill?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 98 km east of Galway and 98 km from Dublin.
How big is Colehill?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 68 buildings, 1 named street and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 14th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Colehill?
59 things the map records in and around it, the closest being 39th Lock Keeper's House, Columbkille's Well and Cloghan Mills (ruins).
How do you get to Colehill?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Longford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 115,491 people in the county in 1841 and 46,751 in 2022.
68
buildings on the model
1
named streets
2
named places
15
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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