Glassan

Glassan Glasán
—  Village  —
Glassan Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°33′19″N 7°46′12″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	County Westmeath
Elevation	56 m (184 ft)
Population (2006)
• Urban	806
Irish Grid Reference

Glassan (Irish: Glasán, meaning "small stream") is a small village of 216 inhabitants (2002 census) in rural County Westmeath, Ireland. It is 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Athlone, on the N55 national secondary road, not far from the shores of Lough Ree. A small river known as the River Tullaghan flows through the northern end of the village and then flows south to Killinure Lough, a part of Lough Ree.

The core of the village consists of a Late 18th/Early 19th Century terrace of two-storey rose-covered houses. Significant suburban development has taken place on all approaches to the village in recent times. The village is overlooked by Caraun Hill, particularly so when approaching the village from the direction of Lough Ree. Services and businesses in the village include two pubs (Grogan's and Farrell's) both with restaurants, a restaurant in the Old Garda Barracks, a hairdresser, a Garda Station, car sales garage, panelbeaters workshop, two redundant forges, a Heritage/Community Centre (Old School House), bus repair garage, service station and supermarket, a number of B&B's, a precast and ready-mix Concrete Works, a stonemason's workshop, a defunct petty sessions court house, a former Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks, a dispensary operated by the Health Board, a house which was formerly a mid terrace church, (steeple extant but not in situ), and a fake water pump installed by the Tidy Towns' (Ignoring the previous location of several original pumps in the village- which were robbed in recent years- they had logically been located over wells). Glassan also hosts 2 hunts; namely the Glassan Farmers Hunt and the South Westmeath Harriers.

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland