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About Suncroft

Suncroft, Crochta na Gréine in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 48 km south-west of Dublin. It stands on the L4002. The map gives it 809 buildings and 6 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 79 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 26th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
48 km south-west of Dublin
Position
53.1075° N, 6.8618° W
Roads
L4002
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
809 buildings, 6 streets, 2 named places in 19 kinds
Suncroft, County Kildare, Ireland.
Suncroft, County Kildare, Ireland.·Sarah777, public domain 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 79 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L4002 running through Suncroft.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 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 Suncroft?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 48 km south-west of Dublin and 48 km from Dublin, on the L4002.
How big is Suncroft?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 809 buildings, 6 named streets and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 26th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Suncroft?
79 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Castle ruins, Susan's Fort and Irish National Stud & Japanese Gardens.
How do you get to Suncroft?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 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.
809
buildings on the model
6
named streets
2
named places
19
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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