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About Kilrathmurry

Kilrathmurry, Cill Rátha Muirígh in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 50 km west of Dublin. It stands on the R148. The map gives it 199 buildings and 1 named street, with 1 place named on them in 12 kinds, and 66 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 54th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
50 km west of Dublin
Position
53.4231° N, 7.0084° W
Roads
R148
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
199 buildings, 1 street, 1 named place in 12 kinds
Sam Dennigan and Co Transport
Sam Dennigan and Co Transport·Peter Mooney, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Iggy Madden Transport Galway - Scania TopLine R480 2008 heads towards Dublin on the M4/M6 at Clonard, Co. Meath Ireland on September 13th 2012.
Iggy Madden Transport Galway - Scania TopLine R480 2008 heads towards Dublin on the M4/M6 at Clonard, Co. Meath Ireland on September 13th 2012.·Peter Mooney, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 66 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R148 running through Kilrathmurry.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilrathmurry?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 50 km west of Dublin and 50 km from Dublin, on the R148.
How big is Kilrathmurry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 199 buildings, 1 named street and 1 named place, which by building count makes it the 54th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Kilrathmurry?
66 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Croppies' Grave, Mullahanna Hill and Tecroghan Castle.
How do you get to Kilrathmurry?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R148.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
199
buildings on the model
1
named streets
1
named places
12
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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