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About Newtown Forbes

Newtown Forbes, An Lios Breac in Irish, is a town in County Longford, 97 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the L1004. The map gives it 506 buildings and 16 named streets, with 30 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 37 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Population
851, as the map records it
Where
97 km north-east of Galway, 114 km from Dublin
Position
53.7667° N, 7.8348° W
Roads
L1004
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
506 buildings, 16 streets, 30 named places in 22 kinds
Castle Forbes, Longford, Co. Longford (21680992271)
Castle Forbes, Longford, Co. Longford (21680992271)·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
County Longford, Aghantrah Bridge.
County Longford, Aghantrah 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 37 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1004 running through Newtown Forbes.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 10 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Schoil Mhuire Clonguish.

Questions people ask

Where is Newtown Forbes?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 97 km north-east of Galway and 114 km from Dublin, on the L1004.
How big is Newtown Forbes?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 506 buildings, 16 named streets and 30 named places, which by building count makes it the 6th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Newtown Forbes?
37 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Castleforbes Demesne, Castleforbes and Castleforbes Demesne.
How do you get to Newtown Forbes?
3 bus and train lines call at 10 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.
506
buildings on the model
16
named streets
30
named places
22
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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