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About Carrickmacross

Carrickmacross, Carraig Mhachaire Rois in Irish, is a town in County Monaghan, 76 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the N2, R178 and R179. The map gives it 5,007 buildings and 94 named streets, with 191 places named on them in 85 kinds, and 154 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Population
5,745, as the map records it
Where
76 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.9770° N, 6.7194° W, 44 m above sea level
Roads
N2, R178, R179, R180, R927, L4051, L4052 and L4700
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
5,007 buildings, 94 streets, 191 named places in 85 kinds
VC7 a Volvo B10m/ Caetano School bus(bus scoile in Irish Gaelic) is seen in Carrickmacross County Monaghan
VC7 a Volvo B10m/ Caetano School bus(bus scoile in Irish Gaelic) is seen in Carrickmacross County Monaghan·D464-Darren Hall, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Nugent's Bus Service (8620558521)
Nugent's Bus Service (8620558521)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Carrickmacross in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1148 to 1887. That is not a history of Carrickmacross, 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.

11481887Louth AbbeyPaírc Emmet
The twelfth century
  • 1148Louth AbbeyHistoric churches · 12 km from the centre
  • the twelfth centurySt. Mochta's HouseHistoric churches · 12 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
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 154 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N2, R178, R179, R180, R927, L4051, L4052 and L4700 running through Carrickmacross.

By bus or train

10 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

7 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Carrickmacross?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 76 km north-west of Dublin and 76 km from Dublin, on the N2, R178 and R179.
How big is Carrickmacross?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 5,007 buildings, 94 named streets and 191 named places, which by building count makes it the 2th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Carrickmacross?
154 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cloughvalley Park, Lisanisk Lakeside Park and Lisanisk Lake.
How do you get to Carrickmacross?
10 bus and train lines call at 9 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Collins Coaches 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.
5,007
buildings on the model
94
named streets
191
named places
85
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 Q1002776). 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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