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About Melview

Melview is a village in County Longford, 100 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 512 buildings and 12 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 40 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Where
100 km north-east of Galway, 111 km from Dublin
Position
53.7626° N, 7.7834° W
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
512 buildings, 12 streets, 2 named places in 14 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 40 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls 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: Melview National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Melview?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 100 km north-east of Galway and 111 km from Dublin.
How big is Melview?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 512 buildings, 12 named streets and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 5th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Melview?
40 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Albert Reynolds Peace Park, War of Independence Memorial and First World War Memorial.
How do you get to Melview?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 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.
512
buildings on the model
12
named streets
2
named places
14
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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