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About Keenagh

Keenagh, Caonach in Irish, is a village in County Longford, 90 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the L1136. The map gives it 87 buildings and 13 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 38 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Where
90 km north-east of Galway, 107 km from Dublin
Position
53.6225° N, 7.8147° W
Roads
L1136
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
87 buildings, 13 streets, 6 named places in 15 kinds
Bend in road near Royal Canal, Island Bridge
Bend in road near Royal Canal, Island Bridge·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Longford, Coolnahinch Bridge.
County Longford, Coolnahinch Bridge.·Royalcanalrunner, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 38 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1136 running through Keenagh. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Dominick's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Keenagh?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 90 km north-east of Galway and 107 km from Dublin, on the L1136.
How big is Keenagh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 87 buildings, 13 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 12th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Keenagh?
38 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Old Mill, Corlea Trackway Interpretative Centre and Site of church.
How do you get to Keenagh?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Farrelly's Coaches and 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.
87
buildings on the model
13
named streets
6
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 (item Q4220712). 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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