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County Monaghan · Ulster

About Scotstown

Scotstown, Baile an Scotaigh in Irish, is a village in County Monaghan, 116 km north-west of Dublin, with 250 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the L2000, L2010 and L2021. The map gives it 735 buildings and 8 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 203 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Population
250 at the 2006 census
Where
116 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.2776° N, 7.0675° W, 72 m above sea level
Roads
L2000, L2010, L2021, L2030, L2031 and L2040
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
735 buildings, 8 streets, 11 named places in 15 kinds
Rory Deegan
Rory Deegan·Rorser at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
Water tower, Kilmore East
Water tower, Kilmore East·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 203 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L2000, L2010, L2021, L2030, L2031 and L2040 running through Scotstown.

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: Urbleshanny National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Scotstown?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 116 km north-west of Dublin and 116 km from Dublin, on the L2000, L2010 and L2021.
How big is Scotstown?
250 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 735 buildings and 8 named streets.
What is there to see in Scotstown?
203 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lisleaghan, Lisbough and Lough Duff.
How do you get to Scotstown?
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.
735
buildings on the model
8
named streets
11
named places
15
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 Q878430). 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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