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About Clonygowan

Clonygowan, Cluain na nGamhan in Irish, is a village in County Offaly, 60 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 460 buildings and 3 named streets, with 4 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 85 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 20th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
60 km north of Kilkenny, 70 km from Dublin
Position
53.1874° N, 7.2807° W
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
460 buildings, 3 streets, 4 named places in 15 kinds
Clonygowan, County Offaly
Clonygowan, County Offaly·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ard House, Clonygowan, Co. Offaly (1)
Ard House, Clonygowan, Co. Offaly (1)·Mike Searle, 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 85 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Clonygowan; the roads it does record are local.

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 Clonygowan?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 60 km north of Kilkenny and 70 km from Dublin.
How big is Clonygowan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 460 buildings, 3 named streets and 4 named places, which by building count makes it the 20th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Clonygowan?
85 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Templekieran (site of), Ghaugher Hill and Moat of Down.
How do you get to Clonygowan?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Slieve Bloom Coach Tours.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
460
buildings on the model
3
named streets
4
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 Q3777979). 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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