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About Belmont

Belmont, An Lios Dearg in Irish, is a village in County Offaly, 77 km east of Galway, with 219 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the L3004 and L3007. The map gives it 437 buildings and 4 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 70 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Population
219 at the 2006 census
Where
77 km east of Galway, 109 km from Dublin
Position
53.2563° N, 7.8944° W
Roads
L3004 and L3007
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
437 buildings, 4 streets, 2 named places in 18 kinds
Entering the Co Offaly village of Belmont from the north
Entering the Co Offaly village of Belmont from the north·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The River Brosna south of Belmont
The River Brosna south of Belmont·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Offaly 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.

146,85751,30883,15018412022

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 70 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L3004 and L3007 running through Belmont.

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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Belmont?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 77 km east of Galway and 109 km from Dublin, on the L3004 and L3007.
How big is Belmont?
219 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 437 buildings and 4 named streets.
What is there to see in Belmont?
70 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballyshiel House, Bridget's Well and Cruhistan.
How do you get to Belmont?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Laois Offaly.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
437
buildings on the model
4
named streets
2
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 Q4083279). 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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