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About Lanesborough

Lanesborough, Béal Átha Liag in Irish, is a village in County Longford, 83 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N63 and L1167. The map gives it 365 buildings and 14 named streets, with 41 places named on them in 32 kinds, and 25 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Where
83 km north-east of Galway, 120 km from Dublin
Position
53.6729° N, 7.9896° W
Roads
N63 and L1167
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
365 buildings, 14 streets, 41 named places in 32 kinds
River Shannon at Lanesborough, Co. Longford, Ireland
River Shannon at Lanesborough, Co. Longford, Ireland·Miguel Mendez from Malahide, Ireland, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
River Shannon at Lanesborough, Co. Longford, Ireland
River Shannon at Lanesborough, Co. Longford, Ireland·Miguel Mendez from Malahide, Ireland, CC BY 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 25 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N63 and L1167 running through Lanesborough. 1 car park on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 8 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal and Lanesborough Community College.

Questions people ask

Where is Lanesborough?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 83 km north-east of Galway and 120 km from Dublin, on the N63 and L1167.
How big is Lanesborough?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 365 buildings, 14 named streets and 41 named places, which by building count makes it the 8th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Lanesborough?
25 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Commons North Walk, Woodland Walking Trails and Wild birds.
How do you get to Lanesborough?
3 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann 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.
365
buildings on the model
14
named streets
41
named places
32
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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