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About Straffan

Straffan, Teach Srafáin in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 23 km west of Dublin. It stands on the L1011, L2007 and L2008. The map gives it 1,141 buildings and 20 named streets, with 26 places named on them in 33 kinds, and 215 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
23 km west of Dublin
Position
53.3125° N, 6.6082° W, 70 m above sea level
Roads
L1011, L2007 and L2008
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,141 buildings, 20 streets, 26 named places in 33 kinds
Organ in St Bridget's, Straffan
Organ in St Bridget's, Straffan·Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Barberstown Castle, Straffan
Barberstown Castle, Straffan·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 215 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1011, L2007 and L2008 running through Straffan.

By bus or train

6 lines call at 10 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Straffan?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 23 km west of Dublin and 23 km from Dublin, on the L1011, L2007 and L2008.
How big is Straffan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,141 buildings, 20 named streets and 26 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Straffan?
215 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Saint Patrick's Church, The Steam Musem and Lodge Park Walled Garden.
How do you get to Straffan?
6 bus and train lines call at 10 stops here in the published timetable, run by Go-Ahead Ireland.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
1,141
buildings on the model
20
named streets
26
named places
33
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 Q2570352). 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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