Glasslough, Co. Monaghan scores 68/100 for quality of life, #25 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “declining”. The median home sells for €322,500 (most €267,750–€392,500), it scores 74/100 for safety (40 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 443 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services, weakest on local economy.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
About average today — the fundamentals are slipping behind the rest of the country.
These seven scores and the 68/100 are measured across the H18 Eircode area, not Glasslough alone — an area that takes in much of MONAGHAN. A strong or weak pocket inside it can read very differently from the area average.
Ranked on quality of life alone — cost of living excluded, so the genuinely best areas rank top even though they cost more. Factor in price and Glasslough is #4 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the H18 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Cavan/Monaghan). Neither is measured for Glasslough on its own.
443 people.
Population is for Glasslough itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
Not ranked: under 2,000 residents, one pub swings the per-head figure too far.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Glasslough, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Glasslough, Co. Monaghan, scores 68/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #25 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and transport & services.
Glasslough scores 74/100 on safety, ~40.0 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Glasslough over the last 24 months was €322,500, most between €267,750 and €392,500 (Property Price Register).
Glasslough is rated "Declining" — unemployment rose 7% → 8% — lagging the national fall, third-level education up only 4 points — behind the national rise.
2 planning applications were lodged within Glasslough in the last 12 months (15 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Glasslough scores 79/100 for families and community.
Glasslough scores 44/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Glasslough is about 105 minutes by road from Dublin.
Sale prices from the Property Price Register (rolling 24 months). Quality of Life averages seven equal-weighted dimensions from 40+ metrics across 13 public datasets (CSO census + SAPS, Garda crime, SEAI, EPA, DES schools, GTFS). Population is CSO Census 2022; the “on the up” trajectory compares 2016→2022. Figures refresh daily · an area assessment, not advice on a specific property. Updated August 2026.