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County Monaghan · Ulster

About Carrickroe

Carrickroe, An Charraig Rua in Irish, is a village in County Monaghan, 123 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the L1131. The map gives it 690 buildings and 2 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 96 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 18th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Where
123 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.3572° N, 7.0274° W
Roads
L1131
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
690 buildings, 2 streets, 3 named places in 12 kinds

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 96 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1131 running through Carrickroe.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Carrickroe?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 123 km north-west of Dublin and 123 km from Dublin, on the L1131.
How big is Carrickroe?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 690 buildings, 2 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 18th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Carrickroe?
96 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Coolberrin Hill, Killybern Lough and St Dympna's Well.
How do you get to Carrickroe?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop 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.
690
buildings on the model
2
named streets
3
named places
12
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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