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About Mucklagh

Mucklagh is a village in County Offaly, 70 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the N52 and R421. The map gives it 690 buildings and 10 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 73 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
70 km north of Kilkenny, 86 km from Dublin
Position
53.2510° N, 7.5493° W
Roads
N52 and R421
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
690 buildings, 10 streets, 15 named places in 22 kinds
The N52 north of the village of Mucklagh
The N52 north of the village of Mucklagh·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
National Ploughing Championships 2026
National Ploughing Championships 2026·Smirkybec, CC BY 4.0 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 73 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N52 and R421 running through Mucklagh.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 7 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Mucklagh National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Mucklagh?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 70 km north of Kilkenny and 86 km from Dublin, on the N52 and R421.
How big is Mucklagh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 690 buildings, 10 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 12th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Mucklagh?
73 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Sugar Hill, Big Wood and Ardnagross Well.
How do you get to Mucklagh?
4 bus and train lines call at 7 stops here in the published timetable, run by Kearns Transport.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
690
buildings on the model
10
named streets
15
named places
22
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 Q4275825). 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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