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About Cloonfad

Cloonfad, Cluain Fada in Irish, is a village in County Roscommon, 50 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R327. The map gives it 735 buildings and 4 named streets, with 1 place named on them in 10 kinds, and 80 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
50 km north-east of Galway, 169 km from Dublin
Position
53.6870° N, 8.7523° W
Roads
R327
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
735 buildings, 4 streets, 1 named place in 10 kinds
St Patrick's church, Cloonfad
St Patrick's church, Cloonfad·David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick·David Purchase, 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 80 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R327 running through Cloonfad.

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 Cloonfad?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 50 km north-east of Galway and 169 km from Dublin, on the R327.
How big is Cloonfad?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 735 buildings, 4 named streets and 1 named place, which by building count makes it the 7th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Cloonfad?
80 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Bunadober Well, Levally Lough and Doonfore Fort.
How do you get to Cloonfad?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
735
buildings on the model
4
named streets
1
named places
10
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 Q4224247). 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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