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About Rush

Rush, An Ros in Irish, is a town in County Dublin, 22 km north-east of Dublin. It stands on the R128 and L5395. The map gives it 6,469 buildings and 129 named streets, with 131 places named on them in 75 kinds, and 154 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
22 km north-east of Dublin
Position
53.5220° N, 6.0909° W, 1 m above sea level
Area
5.84 km²
Roads
R128 and L5395
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
San Mauro Castelverde, Italy and Gourin, France
On the model
6,469 buildings, 129 streets, 131 named places in 75 kinds
thatched cottage near Rush Windmill
thatched cottage near Rush Windmill·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rush harbour
Rush harbour·Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Rush 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 Rush, 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 · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryBaldongan ChurchRuins · 4.3 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
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 154 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R128 and L5395 running through Rush. 8 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

9 lines call at 60 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Gaelscoil Ros Eo, Rush National School and St Joseph's Secondary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Rush?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 22 km north-east of Dublin and 22 km from Dublin, on the R128 and L5395.
How big is Rush?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 6,469 buildings, 129 named streets and 131 named places, which by building count makes it the 22th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Rush?
154 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tayleur Anchor, Hand Park and Kenure Woods.
How do you get to Rush?
9 bus and train lines call at 60 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Go-Ahead Ireland and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
6,469
buildings on the model
129
named streets
131
named places
75
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 Q2014213). 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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