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County Monaghan · Ulster

About Glaslough

Glaslough, Glasloch in Irish, is a village in County Monaghan, 115 km north of Dublin. It stands on the R185. The map gives it 653 buildings and 14 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 100 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 20th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Population
443, as the map records it
Where
115 km north of Dublin
Position
54.3173° N, 6.8951° W
Roads
R185
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
653 buildings, 14 streets, 16 named places in 18 kinds
Stone Bridge Near Glaslough
Stone Bridge Near Glaslough·N-a, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Lodge, Castle Leslie
The Lodge, Castle Leslie·Chris Andrews, 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 100 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R185 running through Glaslough.

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: Glaslough School.

Questions people ask

Where is Glaslough?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 115 km north of Dublin and 115 km from Dublin, on the R185.
How big is Glaslough?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 653 buildings, 14 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 20th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Glaslough?
100 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Coach Garden, Oakland Park and Glaslough Lake.
How do you get to Glaslough?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops 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.
653
buildings on the model
14
named streets
16
named places
18
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 Q952309). 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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