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About Prosperous

Prosperous, An Chorrchoill in Irish, is a town in County Kildare, 33 km west of Dublin, with 1,939 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R408, R409 and L7081. The map gives it 2,416 buildings and 27 named streets, with 54 places named on them in 40 kinds, and 110 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Population
1,939 at the 2006 census
Where
33 km west of Dublin
Position
53.2882° N, 6.7520° W
Area
1.37 km²
Roads
R408, R409, L7081 and L7095
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,416 buildings, 27 streets, 54 named places in 40 kinds
A view of Ballynafagh Church.
A view of Ballynafagh Church.·Sheila1988, CC0 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 110 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R408, R409, L7081 and L7095 running through Prosperous. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

7 lines call at 16 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Saint Farnan's Post Primary School and Scoil an Linbh Íosa.

Questions people ask

Where is Prosperous?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 33 km west of Dublin and 33 km from Dublin, on the R408, R409 and L7081.
How big is Prosperous?
1,939 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 2,416 buildings and 27 named streets.
What is there to see in Prosperous?
110 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Prosperous Park & Playground, Eldons Fort and Scrawtown Fort.
How do you get to Prosperous?
7 bus and train lines call at 16 stops here in the published timetable, run by Go-Ahead Ireland and 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.
2,416
buildings on the model
27
named streets
54
named places
40
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 Q2528850). 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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