
Cloghan, County Offaly
Things to do in Cloghan
Find places that fit your time and your plans. 6 of them are in Cloghan itself and 50 more within twelve kilometres, because the castle outside the village is usually the reason to go to the village.
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Places to explore in pictures

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More places to explore
- HillsCloghan Hill1.1 km from the centreOutdoors
- Holy wellsLug Holy Well2.5 km from the centreOutdoors · About 15 min
- LakesCloghan Lake2.7 km from the centreOutdoors · About 30 min
- CastlesClonony Castle2.9 km from the centreSome of it indoors · About 45 min
- RuinsBallyshiel House3.2 km from the centreOutdoors · About 20 min
- ParksNoggus Bog3.7 km from the centreOutdoors · About 30 min
- Holy wellsSt. Saran's Well4.1 km west of CloghanOutdoors · About 15 min
- WoodsCruhistan4.2 km north-west of CloghanOutdoors · About 40 min
- Historic churchesTisaran Church4.5 km west of CloghanSome of it indoors
- RuinsOld Brick Works5 km north-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- RuinsOld Brick Works5.1 km north-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- WoodsKilbeg Wood5.1 km west of CloghanOutdoors · About 40 min
- RuinsOld Brick |Works5.5 km north-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- AttractionsGallen5.9 km north-east of CloghanSome of it indoors · About 45 min
- Holy wellsBridget's Well6.1 km north of CloghanOutdoors · About 15 min
- CastlesCoole Castle6.5 km north-east of CloghanSome of it indoors · About 45 min
- PlaygroundsFerbane Play Ground6.5 km north-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 45 min
- Historic churchesChurch of Ireland6.5 km north-east of CloghanSome of it indoors
- AttractionsBallylin Bog Boardwalk6.7 km north-east of CloghanSome of it indoors · About 45 min
- ParksFerbane Bog Boardwalk6.9 km north-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 30 min
- LakesBlack Lough7.2 km south-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 30 min
- LakesFooran Lough7.2 km south-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 30 min
- MonumentsCorrigans Corner8 km south-west of CloghanOutdoors · About 15 min
- Ringforts and sitesCillín8.1 km north-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- RuinsFort Falkland8.1 km south-west of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- FortsCromwell's Castle8.2 km south-west of CloghanOutdoors · About 40 min
- RuinsMesolithic site8.3 km east of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- RuinsFort Eliza8.5 km south-west of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- Ringforts and sitesKilcolgan Castle8.5 km north-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- Ringforts and sitesCillín Burial Ground8.6 km north-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- HillsEndrim Hill8.6 km north of CloghanOutdoors
- Ringforts and sitesCillín8.7 km north-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- MonumentsPyramid / Teepee8.8 km east of CloghanOutdoors · About 15 min
- Holy wellsAll Saints' Well9.2 km south-west of CloghanOutdoors · About 15 min
- Holy wellsEye Well9.2 km south-west of CloghanOutdoors · About 15 min
- Holy wellsLady's Well9.3 km south-west of CloghanOutdoors · About 15 min
- MuseumsLough Boora Sculpture Park9.5 km east of CloghanIndoors · About 1 hr
- WoodsBeach Clump9.6 km south-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 40 min
- RuinsChurch (ruins)9.8 km south of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- LakesTarraun Lough9.9 km east of CloghanOutdoors · About 30 min
- ParksTurraun Wetlands10 km north-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 30 min
- ParksTurraun Wetlands10 km east of CloghanOutdoors · About 30 min
- MuseumsLough Boora Sculpture Park10.1 km east of CloghanIndoors · About 1 hr
- LakesLough Boora10.3 km east of CloghanOutdoors · About 30 min
- LakesTunduff Beg Wetlands10.6 km east of CloghanOutdoors · About 30 min
- HillsCocta Hill11.5 km east of CloghanOutdoors
- Ringforts and sitesLisduff11.6 km south-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- WoodsWoodville Wood11.6 km south of CloghanOutdoors · About 40 min
- RuinsClonfert House11.9 km west of CloghanOutdoors · About 20 min
- GardensKilcormac Community Garden11.9 km south-east of CloghanOutdoors · About 40 min
- LakesTunduff Mor Wetlands11.9 km east of CloghanOutdoors · About 30 min
- MuseumsLemanaghan National School12 km north-east of CloghanIndoors · About 1 hr
- Historic churchesSaint Manchan's Church12 km north-east of CloghanSome of it indoors
- CastlesLemanaghan Castle12 km north-east of CloghanSome of it indoors · About 45 min
- WoodsWoodville Wood12 km south of CloghanOutdoors · About 40 min
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While you are there
3 places to eat and 0 places to stay on the map in Cloghan, and 4 bus and train lines calling here.
Questions people ask
What is there to do in Cloghan?
6 places inside Cloghan and 50 more within twelve kilometres, mostly ruins, lakes and holy wells.
How is indoors or outdoors decided?
By what kind of place each one is: a museum is indoors, a park is not, a castle is some of each. OpenStreetMap carries an indoor tag on about one visitor place in three hundred, so a filter built on the tag would hide almost everything. This is a rule about kinds of place, not a claim about any one of them.
Does with kids mean it is suitable for my child?
No. It means the kind of place children generally do: playgrounds, beaches, parks, zoos, museums. The map records an age limit on a handful of places in the country, so nothing here claims a place suits a particular age.
What does it cost, and when is it open?
This page does not say. OpenStreetMap records a fee on about one visitor place in sixty and opening hours on one in fifty, so stating either would mean guessing for almost everything. Each place's own page shows what the map does hold and links to the operator.
How do you get to Cloghan?
4 bus and train lines call at a stop in Cloghan in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Laois Offaly and Westlink Coaches. Which of them runs on the day you are going, and how long it takes from where you are starting, is worked out on the Getting to Cloghan page.
Places are OpenStreetMap records and each links to the one it came from. Indoors, outdoors and with kids are worked out from what kind of place a thing is, not from tags on it, because the tags exist on almost none of them. Visit lengths are a default for each kind. Distances are straight lines from the centre of Cloghan.