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About Cloghan

Cloghan, An Clochán in Irish, is a town in County Offaly, 77 km north-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the N62, R356 and R357. The map gives it 1,024 buildings and 12 named streets, with 26 places named on them in 35 kinds, and 56 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
77 km north-west of Kilkenny, 109 km from Dublin
Position
53.2249° N, 7.8826° W, 55 m above sea level
Roads
N62, R356 and R357
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,024 buildings, 12 streets, 26 named places in 35 kinds
Grand Canal from L'estrange Bridge in Clonony, Co. Offaly
Grand Canal from L'estrange Bridge in Clonony, Co. Offaly·JP, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Clonony Castle, County Offaly
Clonony Castle, County Offaly·Sarah777, 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 56 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N62, R356 and R357 running through Cloghan.

By bus or train

4 lines call 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: St. Mary's Cloghan National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Cloghan?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 77 km north-west of Kilkenny and 109 km from Dublin, on the N62, R356 and R357.
How big is Cloghan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,024 buildings, 12 named streets and 26 named places, which by building count makes it the 9th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Cloghan?
56 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cloghan Hill, Lug Holy Well and Cloghan Lake.
How do you get to Cloghan?
4 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Laois Offaly and Westlink Coaches.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
1,024
buildings on the model
12
named streets
26
named places
35
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 Q3776913). 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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