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County Monaghan · Ulster

About Castleblayney

Castleblayney, Baile na Lorgan in Irish, is a town in County Monaghan, 91 km north of Dublin. It stands on the N2, N53 and R181. The map gives it 3,755 buildings and 55 named streets, with 189 places named on them in 86 kinds, and 156 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Population
3,926, as the map records it
Where
91 km north of Dublin
Position
54.1201° N, 6.7389° W, 104 m above sea level
Roads
N2, N53, R181, R183, R938, L3210, L3410 and L3800
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
Twinned with
Marseillan, France
On the model
3,755 buildings, 55 streets, 189 named places in 86 kinds
View east along Main Street, Castleblayney
View east along Main Street, Castleblayney·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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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 156 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N2, N53, R181, R183, R938, L3210, L3410 and L3800 running through Castleblayney. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

8 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

5 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Castleblayney?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 91 km north of Dublin and 91 km from Dublin, on the N2, N53 and R181.
How big is Castleblayney?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,755 buildings, 55 named streets and 189 named places, which by building count makes it the 3th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Castleblayney?
156 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Big Tom Memorial Statue, The Court House and Mindszenty Park.
How do you get to Castleblayney?
8 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, EMC Coaches Limited and McConnon Travel.
Has County Monaghan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 200,442 people in the county in 1841 and 65,288 in 2022.
3,755
buildings on the model
55
named streets
189
named places
86
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 Q2528834). 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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