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About Legan

Legan, An Léana Mór in Irish, is a village in County Longford, 96 km west of Dublin. The map gives it 12 buildings and 1 named street, with 5 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 60 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 29th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Where
96 km west of Dublin
Position
53.6216° N, 7.6321° W
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
12 buildings, 1 street, 5 named places in 18 kinds
The Legan Road junction on the N55 north-east of Lisdreenagh
The Legan Road junction on the N55 north-east of Lisdreenagh·Eric Jones, 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 60 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls 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: Lenamore NS.

Questions people ask

Where is Legan?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 96 km west of Dublin and 96 km from Dublin.
How big is Legan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 12 buildings, 1 named street and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 29th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Legan?
60 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lady Well, Church (ruins) and Columbkille's Well.
How do you get to Legan?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
12
buildings on the model
1
named streets
5
named places
18
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 Q26715481). 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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