Skip to content
Roscommon
County Roscommon · Connacht

About Athleague

Athleague, Áth Liag in Irish, is a village in County Roscommon, 62 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R362. The map gives it 520 buildings and 3 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 58 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
62 km north-east of Galway, 134 km from Dublin
Position
53.5676° N, 8.2562° W
Roads
R362
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
520 buildings, 3 streets, 13 named places in 23 kinds
Castles of Connacht: Athleague, Roscommon (1)
Castles of Connacht: Athleague, Roscommon (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Athleague, Roscommon (2)
Castles of Connacht: Athleague, Roscommon (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Roscommon 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.

253,59151,89770,25918412022

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 58 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R362 running through Athleague.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Athleague?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 62 km north-east of Galway and 134 km from Dublin, on the R362.
How big is Athleague?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 520 buildings, 3 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Athleague?
58 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Angling Visitor Conference Center, Carrigeen Church and Cloghnashade Lough.
How do you get to Athleague?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Bus4u.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
520
buildings on the model
3
named streets
13
named places
23
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. 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.

Back to Athleague·Getting to Athleague·County Roscommon