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About Knockcroghery

Knockcroghery, Cnoc an Chrochaire in Irish, is a village in County Roscommon, 72 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 559 buildings and 3 named streets, with 17 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 60 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 14th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
72 km north-east of Galway, 124 km from Dublin
Position
53.5756° N, 8.0949° W
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
559 buildings, 3 streets, 17 named places in 23 kinds
Knockcroghery Station (remains) geograph.org.uk 2238209
Knockcroghery Station (remains) geograph.org.uk 2238209·Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lane to Galey Bay
Lane to Galey Bay·Peter Wood, 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 60 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Knockcroghery; the roads it does record are local. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

4 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 Knockcroghery?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 72 km north-east of Galway and 124 km from Dublin.
How big is Knockcroghery?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 559 buildings, 3 named streets and 17 named places, which by building count makes it the 14th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Knockcroghery?
60 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Green, Hangman's Hill and Ashwood.
How do you get to Knockcroghery?
4 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Roscommon Coaches 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.
559
buildings on the model
3
named streets
17
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.

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