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County Monaghan · Ulster

About Bellanode

Bellanode, Béal Átha an Fhóid in Irish, is a village in County Monaghan, 114 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R186. The map gives it 713 buildings and 10 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 190 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Population
433, as the map records it
Where
114 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.2670° N, 7.0352° W
Roads
R186
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
713 buildings, 10 streets, 13 named places in 18 kinds
Graveyard, St Dympna's Church of Ireland
Graveyard, St Dympna's Church of Ireland·Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 190 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R186 running through Bellanode.

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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Bellanode?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 114 km north-west of Dublin and 114 km from Dublin, on the R186.
How big is Bellanode?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 713 buildings, 10 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 15th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Bellanode?
190 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Quig Lough, Drumreask Lough and Annyalty Lough.
How do you get to Bellanode?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Cavan Monaghan.
Has County Monaghan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 200,442 people in the county in 1841 and 65,288 in 2022.
713
buildings on the model
10
named streets
13
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 Q878452). 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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