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About Curragha

Curragha is a village in County Meath, 24 km north-west of Dublin. The map gives it 727 buildings and 1 named street, with 20 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 69 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 26th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
24 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.5405° N, 6.4419° W
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
727 buildings, 1 street, 20 named places in 25 kinds
RML2570 Tayto Park Ashbourne
RML2570 Tayto Park Ashbourne·D464-Darren Hall, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Curragha Crossroads. Swan's Public House at Curragha Crossroads, Co Meath.
Curragha Crossroads. Swan's Public House at Curragha Crossroads, Co Meath.·C O'Flanagan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Meath 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.

220,82661,405183,82818412022

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 69 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Curragha; the roads it does record are local. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 1 line calls at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Andrew's National School, Curragha.

Questions people ask

Where is Curragha?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 24 km north-west of Dublin and 24 km from Dublin.
How big is Curragha?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 727 buildings, 1 named street and 20 named places, which by building count makes it the 26th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Curragha?
69 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Emerald Park, Lemur Wood and Pow Wow Playground.
How do you get to Curragha?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
727
buildings on the model
1
named streets
20
named places
25
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 Q5194939). 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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