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County Monaghan · Ulster

About Scotshouse

Scotshouse, Teach an Scotaigh in Irish, is a village in County Monaghan, 108 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R212. The map gives it 529 buildings and 4 named streets, with 26 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 306 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Population
317, as the map records it
Where
108 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.1225° N, 7.2486° W, 71 m above sea level
Roads
R212
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
529 buildings, 4 streets, 26 named places in 20 kinds
St Andrew's Church of Ireland, Scotshouse
St Andrew's Church of Ireland, Scotshouse·Kenneth Allen, 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 306 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R212 running through Scotshouse.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Saint Enda's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Scotshouse?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 108 km north-west of Dublin and 108 km from Dublin, on the R212.
How big is Scotshouse?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 529 buildings, 4 named streets and 26 named places, which by building count makes it the 23th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Scotshouse?
306 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Beech Wood, The Dark Wood and Old Forge Wood.
How do you get to Scotshouse?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 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.
529
buildings on the model
4
named streets
26
named places
20
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 Q878498). 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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