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County Monaghan · Ulster

About Rockcorry

Rockcorry, Buíochar in Irish, is a village in County Monaghan, 99 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R188 and L2331. The map gives it 563 buildings and 10 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 225 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Population
302, as the map records it
Where
99 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.1176° N, 7.0154° W
Roads
R188 and L2331
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
563 buildings, 10 streets, 12 named places in 18 kinds
St James' CoI Church, Rockcorry
St James' CoI Church, Rockcorry·Anthony Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rockcorry Presbyterian Church
Rockcorry Presbyterian Church·Anthony Foster, 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 225 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R188 and L2331 running through Rockcorry.

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: Rockcorry Church of Ireland National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Rockcorry?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 99 km north-west of Dublin and 99 km from Dublin, on the R188 and L2331.
How big is Rockcorry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 563 buildings, 10 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 22th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Rockcorry?
225 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Corravoo Lough, Green Lough and Drumsaul Lough.
How do you get to Rockcorry?
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.
563
buildings on the model
10
named streets
12
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 Q878435). 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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