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About Derryhaun

Derryhaun, Doireachán Mór in Irish, is a village in County Longford, 85 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R392. The map gives it 66 buildings and 1 named street, with 1 place named on them in 9 kinds, and 38 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Where
85 km north-east of Galway, 113 km from Dublin
Position
53.6307° N, 7.9084° W
Roads
R392
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
66 buildings, 1 street, 1 named place in 9 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 38 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R392 running through Derryhaun.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Derryhaun?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 85 km north-east of Galway and 113 km from Dublin, on the R392.
How big is Derryhaun?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 66 buildings, 1 named street and 1 named place, which by building count makes it the 15th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Derryhaun?
38 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Site of church, Corlea Trackway Interpretative Centre and Old Mill.
How do you get to Derryhaun?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R392.
Has County Longford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 115,491 people in the county in 1841 and 46,751 in 2022.
66
buildings on the model
1
named streets
1
named places
9
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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