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County Monaghan · Ulster

About Clones

Clones, Cluain Eois in Irish, is a town in County Monaghan, 112 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the A3, A34 and N54. The map gives it 3,478 buildings and 63 named streets, with 89 places named on them in 51 kinds, and 262 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Population
1,885, as the map records it
Where
112 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.1792° N, 7.2321° W, 71 m above sea level
Roads
A3, A34, N54, B143, R183, R193, R212 and R868
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
3,478 buildings, 63 streets, 89 named places in 51 kinds
Ex Citybus RELL POI2199 is seen in the border town of Clones County Monaghan in use with a Church group spreading the good news from our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ex Citybus RELL POI2199 is seen in the border town of Clones County Monaghan in use with a Church group spreading the good news from our Lord Jesus Christ.·D464-Darren Hall, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
'Davids Chair'
'Davids Chair'·David4omagh, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Clones in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the ninth century to 1944. That is not a history of Clones, 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.

the ninth century1944Abbey RuinsSaint Tiernach’s Park
The ninth century
  • the ninth centuryAbbey RuinsHistoric churches · 150 m from the centre
The nineteenth century
The twentieth 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 262 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the A3, A34, N54, B143, R183, R193, R212 and R868 running through Clones. 1 car park on the map.

By bus or train

7 lines call at 7 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Saint Tiarnach's Primary School, Eois and Largy College.

Questions people ask

Where is Clones?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 112 km north-west of Dublin and 112 km from Dublin, on the A3, A34 and N54.
How big is Clones?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,478 buildings, 63 named streets and 89 named places, which by building count makes it the 4th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Clones?
262 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Clones High Cross, The Cassandra Hand Centre and Abbey Ruins.
How do you get to Clones?
7 bus and train lines call at 7 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, McConnon Travel and Streamline Coaches.
Has County Monaghan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 200,442 people in the county in 1841 and 65,288 in 2022.
3,478
buildings on the model
63
named streets
89
named places
51
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 Q1102275). 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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