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About Castleplunket

Castleplunket, Lios Lachna in Irish, is a village in County Roscommon, 70 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 384 buildings and 0 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 72 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 29th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
70 km north-east of Galway, 145 km from Dublin
Position
53.7501° N, 8.3446° W
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
384 buildings, 0 streets, 5 named places in 13 kinds
R367 road in Castleplunket, County Roscommon, Ireland.
R367 road in Castleplunket, County Roscommon, Ireland.·Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
R377 road in Castleplunket, County Roscommon, Ireland.
R377 road in Castleplunket, County Roscommon, Ireland.·Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain 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 72 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call 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 Castleplunket?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 70 km north-east of Galway and 145 km from Dublin.
How big is Castleplunket?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 384 buildings, 0 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 29th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Castleplunket?
72 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ardervin Fort, Toberelva and Fern Hall.
How do you get to Castleplunket?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon and Westlink Coaches.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
384
buildings on the model
0
named streets
5
named places
13
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 Q4216660). 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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