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County Monaghan · Ulster

About Corcaghan

Corcaghan is a village in County Monaghan, 105 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R188. The map gives it 798 buildings and 1 named street, with 9 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 208 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 10th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Where
105 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.1899° N, 6.9902° W
Roads
R188
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
798 buildings, 1 street, 9 named places in 16 kinds
Entering the Co. Monaghan village of Corcaghan on R188
Entering the Co. Monaghan village of Corcaghan on R188·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The R188 at the southern end of Corcaghan village
The R188 at the southern end of Corcaghan village·Eric Jones, 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 208 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R188 running through Corcaghan.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Michael's National School Corcaghan.

Questions people ask

Where is Corcaghan?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 105 km north-west of Dublin and 105 km from Dublin, on the R188.
How big is Corcaghan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 798 buildings, 1 named street and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 10th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Corcaghan?
208 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Corcaghan Lough, Lisnashannagh Lough and Drummuck Lough.
How do you get to Corcaghan?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Monaghan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 200,442 people in the county in 1841 and 65,288 in 2022.
798
buildings on the model
1
named streets
9
named places
16
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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