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About Croghan

Croghan, Cruachán in Irish, is a village in County Roscommon, 89 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 360 buildings and 0 named streets, with 1 place named on them in 20 kinds, and 123 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 32th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
89 km north-east of Galway, 143 km from Dublin
Position
53.9109° N, 8.2201° W
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
360 buildings, 0 streets, 1 named place in 20 kinds

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 123 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

1 line calls 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 Croghan?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 89 km north-east of Galway and 143 km from Dublin.
How big is Croghan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 360 buildings, 0 named streets and 1 named place, which by building count makes it the 32th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Croghan?
123 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lisdaly, Lisdaly Lough and Canbo Lough.
How do you get to Croghan?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
360
buildings on the model
0
named streets
1
named places
20
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 Q4241824). 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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