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About Raheen

Raheen is a village in County Laois, 36 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 347 buildings and 0 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 107 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 32th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
36 km north of Kilkenny, 85 km from Dublin
Position
52.9650° N, 7.3695° W
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
347 buildings, 0 streets, 9 named places in 20 kinds
Raheen, County Laois, near to Raheen and Ardled, Laois, Ireland. St. Fintan's church.
Raheen, County Laois, near to Raheen and Ardled, Laois, Ireland. St. Fintan's church.·sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Sycamore on the N8, near to Raheen, Ballyruin and Corbally, County Laois, Ireland. Still the main Dublin–Cork road between Portlaoise and Abbeyleix. Soon to be bypassed by the M8.
Sycamore on the N8, near to Raheen, Ballyruin and Corbally, County Laois, Ireland. Still the main Dublin–Cork road between Portlaoise and Abbeyleix. Soon to be bypassed by the M8.·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 107 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Raheen; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Raheen National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Raheen?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 36 km north of Kilkenny and 85 km from Dublin.
How big is Raheen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 347 buildings, 0 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 32th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Raheen?
107 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Grotto, Mass Pit and Bondra Plantation.
How do you get to Raheen?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
347
buildings on the model
0
named streets
9
named places
20
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 Q4391104). 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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