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About Newtowncashel

Newtowncashel is a village in County Longford, 81 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 20 buildings and 0 named streets, with 4 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 54 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Where
81 km north-east of Galway, 114 km from Dublin
Position
53.5863° N, 7.9380° W
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
20 buildings, 0 streets, 4 named places in 15 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Elfeet, Longford
Castles of Leinster: Elfeet, Longford·Mike Searle, 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 54 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Newtowncashel National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Newtowncashel?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 81 km north-east of Galway and 114 km from Dublin.
How big is Newtowncashel?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 20 buildings, 0 named streets and 4 named places, which by building count makes it the 27th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Newtowncashel?
54 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Slaven, Lady Well and Priest's Island.
How do you get to Newtowncashel?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Longford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 115,491 people in the county in 1841 and 46,751 in 2022.
20
buildings on the model
0
named streets
4
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 Q4328374). 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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