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About Lough Egish

Lough Egish, Loch Éigis in Irish, is a village in County Monaghan, 87 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R180 and R181. The map gives it 575 buildings and 3 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 213 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Where
87 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.0588° N, 6.8176° W
Roads
R180 and R181
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
575 buildings, 3 streets, 12 named places in 16 kinds
Creamery on the shores of Lough Egish near Castleblayney
Creamery on the shores of Lough Egish near Castleblayney·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lough Egish at Tullynahinnera
Lough Egish at Tullynahinnera·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 213 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R180 and R181 running through Lough Egish.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Lough Egish?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 87 km north-west of Dublin and 87 km from Dublin, on the R180 and R181.
How big is Lough Egish?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 575 buildings, 3 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Lough Egish?
213 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Morne, Tober na Braher and Boraghy Lough.
How do you get to Lough Egish?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R180 and R181.
Has County Monaghan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 200,442 people in the county in 1841 and 65,288 in 2022.
575
buildings on the model
3
named streets
12
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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