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About Ardclough

Ardclough, Áth Cloch in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 21 km west of Dublin. It stands on the L2008. The map gives it 576 buildings and 7 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 239 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 35th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
21 km west of Dublin
Position
53.2978° N, 6.5683° W, 61 m above sea level
Roads
L2008
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
576 buildings, 7 streets, 14 named places in 25 kinds
Part of the village of the Lyons Estate which has now been restored and turned into a hotel
Part of the village of the Lyons Estate which has now been restored and turned into a hotel·M G Tuffen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Reeves Castle from the train
Reeves Castle from the train·Ian Paterson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ardclough in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1350 to 1988. That is not a history of Ardclough, 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.

13501988Oughterard ChurchThe Steam Musem
The fourteenth century
  • 1350Oughterard ChurchHistoric churches · 2.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twentieth century

County Kildare 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.

247,77457,892114,48818412022

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 239 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L2008 running through Ardclough. 10 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Anne's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ardclough?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 21 km west of Dublin and 21 km from Dublin, on the L2008.
How big is Ardclough?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 576 buildings, 7 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 35th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Ardclough?
239 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Triangle, Community Garden and Tipperstown House.
How do you get to Ardclough?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the L2008.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
576
buildings on the model
7
named streets
14
named places
25
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 Q2073251). 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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