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About Portraine

Portraine, Port Reachrann in Irish, is a village in County Dublin, 19 km north-east of Dublin. It stands on the R126, L2170 and L6169. The map gives it 1,888 buildings and 31 named streets, with 32 places named on them in 31 kinds, and 197 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 37th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
19 km north-east of Dublin
Position
53.4934° N, 6.1123° W
Roads
R126, L2170 and L6169
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,888 buildings, 31 streets, 32 named places in 31 kinds
Rushing (7001840936)
Rushing (7001840936)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Portraine Church
Portraine Church·hender.sara, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Portraine in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1200 to 2020. That is not a history of Portraine, 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.

12002020Swords CastleCasino Model Railway Museum
The twelfth century
  • 1200Swords CastleCastles · 8.0 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryBaldongan ChurchRuins · 6.7 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twenty-first century

County Dublin 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.

1,458,154372,77318412022

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 197 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R126, L2170 and L6169 running through Portraine. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 22 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 Portraine?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 19 km north-east of Dublin and 19 km from Dublin, on the R126, L2170 and L6169.
How big is Portraine?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,888 buildings, 31 named streets and 32 named places, which by building count makes it the 37th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Portraine?
197 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St Catherine's Church, The Anchor and The Farmhouse 1722.
How do you get to Portraine?
5 bus and train lines call at 22 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Go-Ahead Ireland and Nitelink, Dublin Bus.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
1,888
buildings on the model
31
named streets
32
named places
31
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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