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About Rathcoffey

Rathcoffey, Rathcobhthaigh in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 28 km west of Dublin. It stands on the R408. The map gives it 614 buildings and 3 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 184 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 33th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
28 km west of Dublin
Position
53.3343° N, 6.6790° W
Roads
R408
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
614 buildings, 3 streets, 6 named places in 22 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Rathcoffey, Kildare (1)
Castles of Leinster: Rathcoffey, Kildare (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Leinster: Rathcoffey, Kildare (2)
Castles of Leinster: Rathcoffey, Kildare (2)·Mike Searle, 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 184 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R408 running through Rathcoffey.

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: Saint Mochuo's National School Rathcoffey.

Questions people ask

Where is Rathcoffey?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 28 km west of Dublin and 28 km from Dublin, on the R408.
How big is Rathcoffey?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 614 buildings, 3 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 33th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Rathcoffey?
184 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rathcoffey Castle, Loughtown Covert and Balraheen Church.
How do you get to Rathcoffey?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by JJ Kavanagh.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
614
buildings on the model
3
named streets
6
named places
22
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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