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Monaghan
County Monaghan · Ulster

About Monaghan

Monaghan, Muineachán in Irish, is a town in County Monaghan, 110 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the N12, N2 and N54. The map gives it 6,098 buildings and 121 named streets, with 277 places named on them in 95 kinds, and 172 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Population
7,894, as the map records it
Where
110 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.2486° N, 6.9689° W, 71 m above sea level
Roads
N12, N2, N54, R162, R185, R186, R188 and R189
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
6,098 buildings, 121 streets, 277 named places in 95 kinds
The Diamond, Monaghan town, viewed from the West
The Diamond, Monaghan town, viewed from the West·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Monaghan Town branch of the AIB Bank
The Monaghan Town branch of the AIB Bank·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Monaghan in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1792 to 1896. That is not a history of Monaghan, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

17921896The MarkethouseMonaghan General Hospital
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century

County Monaghan 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.

200,44245,73265,28818412022

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 172 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N12, N2, N54, R162, R185, R186, R188 and R189 running through Monaghan. 1 car park on the map.

By bus or train

15 lines call at 36 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

11 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Monaghan?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 110 km north-west of Dublin and 110 km from Dublin, on the N12, N2 and N54.
How big is Monaghan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 6,098 buildings, 121 named streets and 277 named places, which by building count makes it the largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Monaghan?
172 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Dawson Monument, Peter's Lake and Old Cross Square.
How do you get to Monaghan?
15 bus and train lines call at 36 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, EMC Coaches Limited and John McGinley Coach Travel.
Has County Monaghan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 200,442 people in the county in 1841 and 65,288 in 2022.
6,098
buildings on the model
121
named streets
277
named places
95
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 Q373901). 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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