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About Carragh

Carragh, Ceárach in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 34 km west of Dublin. It stands on the R409. The map gives it 1,050 buildings and 8 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 122 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
34 km west of Dublin
Position
53.2389° N, 6.7300° W, 118 m above sea level
Roads
R409
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,050 buildings, 8 streets, 11 named places in 27 kinds
Carragh village
Carragh village·Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Caragh Church by night
Caragh Church by night·Robin Pollard, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Carragh in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1350 to 1988. That is not a history of Carragh, 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 · 12 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
  • the 1630sJigginstown HouseHistoric houses · 4.2 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 122 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R409 running through Carragh.

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: Caragh National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Carragh?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 34 km west of Dublin and 34 km from Dublin, on the R409.
How big is Carragh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,050 buildings, 8 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 22th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Carragh?
122 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Site of Carragh Parish Church (C of I), Museum of Motorsport and Barrettstown Hill.
How do you get to Carragh?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Kildare South Dublin.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
1,050
buildings on the model
8
named streets
11
named places
27
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 Q2321463). 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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