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About Lauragh

Lauragh, An Láithreach in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 90 km west of Cork. It stands on the R574. The map gives it 64 buildings and 3 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 157 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 65th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
90 km west of Cork, 295 km from Dublin
Position
51.7672° N, 9.7700° W
Roads
R574
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
64 buildings, 3 streets, 12 named places in 19 kinds
Greenhouse in Dereen Garden
Greenhouse in Dereen Garden·PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View towards the Kenmare River
View towards the Kenmare River·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Kerry 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.

293,880112,772156,45818412022

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 157 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R574 running through Lauragh.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Lauragh Primary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Lauragh?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 90 km west of Cork and 295 km from Dublin, on the R574.
How big is Lauragh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 64 buildings, 3 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 65th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Lauragh?
157 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Habitat of Derreenies, Derreen Gardens and Creeveen Wood Lower.
How do you get to Lauragh?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Kerry.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
64
buildings on the model
3
named streets
12
named places
19
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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