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About Rathangan

Rathangan, Ráth Iomgháin in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 51 km west of Dublin, with 1,718 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R401, R414 and R419. The map gives it 1,669 buildings and 48 named streets, with 49 places named on them in 42 kinds, and 67 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Population
1,718 at the 2006 census
Where
51 km west of Dublin
Position
53.2203° N, 6.9930° W
Area
2.59 km²
Roads
R401, R414, R419 and L3001
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,669 buildings, 48 streets, 49 named places in 42 kinds
Lock Gates at Spencer Bridge, Rathangan
Lock Gates at Spencer Bridge, Rathangan·Alex Passmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lock Gates at Spencer Bridge, Rathangan
Lock Gates at Spencer Bridge, Rathangan·Alex Passmore, 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 67 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R401, R414, R419 and L3001 running through Rathangan.

By bus or train

6 lines call at 13 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Saint Patricks Boys School, Rathangan Girls' School and Rathangan Secondary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Rathangan?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 51 km west of Dublin and 51 km from Dublin, on the R401, R414 and R419.
How big is Rathangan?
1,718 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 1,669 buildings and 48 named streets.
What is there to see in Rathangan?
67 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tannery Park, Bithia Mary Croker and An Rath Ring Fort.
How do you get to Rathangan?
6 bus and train lines call at 13 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.
1,669
buildings on the model
48
named streets
49
named places
42
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 Q2346757). 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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