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About Rathfarnham

Rathfarnham, Ráth Fearnáin in Irish, is a village in County Dublin, 6 km south of Dublin. It stands on the R112, R114 and R115. The map gives it 14,704 buildings and 368 named streets, with 489 places named on them in 133 kinds, and 941 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Population
17,333, as the map records it
Where
6 km south of Dublin
Position
53.2988° N, 6.2855° W, 54 m above sea level
Roads
R112, R114, R115, R137, R817, R818, R821 and R822
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
14,704 buildings, 368 streets, 489 named places in 133 kinds
The Yellow House Landmark pub in Rathfarhnam, New Year's Eve, 2006
The Yellow House Landmark pub in Rathfarhnam, New Year's Eve, 2006·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Rathfarnham in order

58 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 800s to 2019. That is not a history of Rathfarnham, 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 800s2019Book of KellsMuseum of Literature Ireland
The eighth century
  • the 800sBook of KellsAttractions · 5.4 km from the centre · Memory of the World International Register
The thirteenth century
The fifteenth century
The sixteenth century
The seventeenth century
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
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 941 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R112, R114, R115, R137, R817, R818, R821 and R822 running through Rathfarnham. 15 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

21 lines call at 183 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

18 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Rathfarnham?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 6 km south of Dublin and 6 km from Dublin, on the R112, R114 and R115.
How big is Rathfarnham?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 14,704 buildings, 368 named streets and 489 named places, which by building count makes it the 7th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Rathfarnham?
941 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rathfarnham Castle, Rathfarnham Castle Park and Dodder Valley Park.
How do you get to Rathfarnham?
21 bus and train lines call at 183 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Dublin Coach and Dublin Express.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
14,704
buildings on the model
368
named streets
489
named places
133
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 (item Q1317787). 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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