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About Rathcairn

Rathcairn, Ráth Chairn in Irish, is a village in County Meath, 50 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the L4003. The map gives it 516 buildings and 3 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 113 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 45th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
50 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.6164° N, 6.8644° W, 61 m above sea level
Roads
L4003
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
516 buildings, 3 streets, 11 named places in 23 kinds
Church at Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
Church at Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath·Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Graveyard at Wardstown, Co. Meath
Graveyard at Wardstown, Co. Meath·Kieran Campbell, 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 113 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L4003 running through Rathcairn.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Coláiste Pobail Ráth Chairn and Scoil Uí Ghramhnaigh.

Questions people ask

Where is Rathcairn?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 50 km north-west of Dublin and 50 km from Dublin, on the L4003.
How big is Rathcairn?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 516 buildings, 3 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 45th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Rathcairn?
113 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tlachta, Tlachtgha and Old Rathmore Church.
How do you get to Rathcairn?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the L4003.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
516
buildings on the model
3
named streets
11
named places
23
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 Q2672172). 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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