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About Rowlestown

Rowlestown, Baile an Rólaigh in Irish, is a village in County Dublin, 16 km north of Dublin. It stands on the R122, R125 and R130. The map gives it 1,055 buildings and 37 named streets, with 17 places named on them in 32 kinds, and 159 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 44th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
16 km north of Dublin
Position
53.4880° N, 6.3044° W
Roads
R122, R125 and R130
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,055 buildings, 37 streets, 17 named places in 32 kinds
County Dublin, St Brigid's Church, Rolestown.
County Dublin, St Brigid's Church, Rolestown.·Jonjobaker, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Broadmeadow River at Lispopple, Co. Dublin
Broadmeadow River at Lispopple, Co. Dublin·jwd, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Rowlestown in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1200 to 2020. That is not a history of Rowlestown, 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 · 6.4 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth 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 159 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R122, R125 and R130 running through Rowlestown.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Rolestown National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Rowlestown?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 16 km north of Dublin and 16 km from Dublin, on the R122, R125 and R130.
How big is Rowlestown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,055 buildings, 37 named streets and 17 named places, which by building count makes it the 44th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Rowlestown?
159 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St Catherine's Well, Portraine Asylum Reservoir and Wooly Ward's Farm.
How do you get to Rowlestown?
2 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus and Go-Ahead Ireland.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
1,055
buildings on the model
37
named streets
17
named places
32
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 Q4396966). 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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