Coordinates: 53°28?14?N 7°51?50?W53.4706694°N 7.8638418°WCoordinates: 53°28?14?N 7°51?50?W53.4706694°N 7.8638418°W
Country Ireland
Province
Leinster
County
County Westmeath
Elevation 56 m (184 ft)
Population (2006)
• Urban[1]
166
• Rural[2]
816
Glassan or Glasson (Irish: Glasán, meaning 'small stream'), also the Village of the Roses[3] is a small village in rural County Westmeath, Ireland.[1] 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 The Fatted Calf (Formerly 'Farrels') both with restaurants, a restaurant in the Old Garda Barracks, a hairdresser, a play school, a Garda Station, two redundant forges, a Heritage/Community Centre (Old School House), service station and supermarket, a number of B&B's, 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). Glasson also hosts two hunts; namely the Glasson Farmers Hunt and the South Westmeath Harriers.
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