About Rathoe
Rathoe, Ráth Tó in Irish, is a village in County Carlow, 34 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the L1024 and L3046. The map gives it 534 buildings and 2 named streets, with 4 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 77 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.
- Where
- 34 km north-east of Kilkenny, 72 km from Dublin
- Position
- 52.7869° N, 6.8001° W
- Roads
- L1024 and L3046
- Governed
- Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
- On the model
- 534 buildings, 2 streets, 4 named places in 19 kinds
Rathoe in order
3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 1210s to 1973. That is not a history of Rathoe, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.
- the 1210sCarlow CastleCastles · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland, national monument of Ireland
- 1825Duckett's GroveHistoric houses · 7.9 km from the centre
- 1973Carlow County MuseumMuseums · 10 km from the centre
County Carlow 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.
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.
- Site of Castle1.9 kmRingforts and sites
- St Patrick's Well1.9 kmHoly wells
- Rath Brogue2.0 kmRingforts and sites
- Ballynunnery Church2.1 kmRingforts and sites
- Kellistown Church2.2 kmRuins
- Site of Round Tower2.3 kmRingforts and sites
- Site of Gilbertstown Church2.4 kmRingforts and sites
- Ballynunnery Catle2.6 kmRingforts and sites
- Castlemore Moat3.1 kmRingforts and sites
- Ardristan Stone3.1 kmRingforts and sites
- Church3.2 kmRuins
- Site of Fardarraghnagranshy's Castle3.7 kmRingforts and sites
Getting around
The map records the L1024 and L3046 running through Rathoe.
1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
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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.