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About Frenchpark

Frenchpark, Dún Gar in Irish, is a village in County Roscommon, 79 km north-east of Galway, with 454 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N5. The map gives it 695 buildings and 6 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 40 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Population
454 at the 2006 census
Where
79 km north-east of Galway, 153 km from Dublin
Position
53.8695° N, 8.4072° W, 82 m above sea level
Roads
N5
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
695 buildings, 6 streets, 8 named places in 16 kinds
Ireland in Ruins: French Park Smokehouse, Co. Roscommon (1)
Ireland in Ruins: French Park Smokehouse, Co. Roscommon (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The N5 at the southern entrance to the village of Frenchpark
The N5 at the southern entrance to the village of Frenchpark·Eric Jones, 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 40 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N5 running through Frenchpark.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 3 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 Frenchpark?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 79 km north-east of Galway and 153 km from Dublin, on the N5.
How big is Frenchpark?
454 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 695 buildings and 6 named streets.
What is there to see in Frenchpark?
40 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cloonshanville High Cross, Kilnamanagh Church and Cashel.
How do you get to Frenchpark?
3 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann 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.
695
buildings on the model
6
named streets
8
named places
16
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 Q2575174). 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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