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About Mountrath

Mountrath, Maighean Rátha in Irish, is a town in County Laois, 42 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the M7, R423 and R430. The map gives it 2,287 buildings and 16 named streets, with 50 places named on them in 42 kinds, and 64 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Population
2,070, as the map records it
Where
42 km north of Kilkenny, 90 km from Dublin
Position
53.0012° N, 7.4743° W
Roads
M7, R423, R430, R440 and R445
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,287 buildings, 16 streets, 50 named places in 42 kinds
Whither the wind blows
Whither the wind blows·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Town Centre, Mountrath, County Laois
Town Centre, Mountrath, County Laois·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Laois 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.

153,93044,59591,87718412022

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 64 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M7, R423, R430, R440 and R445 running through Mountrath.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Scoile Bhride, Mountrath Community School and Trumera National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Mountrath?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 42 km north of Kilkenny and 90 km from Dublin, on the M7, R423 and R430.
How big is Mountrath?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,287 buildings, 16 named streets and 50 named places, which by building count makes it the 5th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Mountrath?
64 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Mountrath Park, Crab Hill and Castle Red Castle (site of).
How do you get to Mountrath?
5 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Slieve Bloom Coach Tours and TFI Local Link Laois Offaly.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
2,287
buildings on the model
16
named streets
50
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. 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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