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About Croghan

Croghan, Cruachán in Irish, is a village in County Offaly, 68 km west of Dublin. The map gives it 431 buildings and 0 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 37 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
68 km west of Dublin
Position
53.3408° N, 7.2793° W, 110 m above sea level
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
431 buildings, 0 streets, 10 named places in 14 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Croghan Fortified House, Offaly (2)
Castles of Leinster: Croghan Fortified House, Offaly (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Leinster: Croghan Fortified House, Offaly (1)
Castles of Leinster: Croghan Fortified House, 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 37 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Bhríde, Croghan.

Questions people ask

Where is Croghan?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 68 km west of Dublin and 68 km from Dublin.
How big is Croghan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 431 buildings, 0 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 24th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Croghan?
37 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Croghan Hill Walk, Croghan Hill and Fooran Well.
How do you get to Croghan?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
431
buildings on the model
0
named streets
10
named places
14
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 Q4241822). 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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