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About Rathmolyon

Rathmolyon, Ráth Moliain in Irish, is a village in County Meath, 39 km north-west of Dublin. The map gives it 703 buildings and 0 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 47 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 29th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Where
39 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.4882° N, 6.8038° W, 76 m above sea level
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
703 buildings, 0 streets, 5 named places in 17 kinds

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 47 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls 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 Rathmolyon?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 39 km north-west of Dublin and 39 km from Dublin.
How big is Rathmolyon?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 703 buildings, 0 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 29th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.
What is there to see in Rathmolyon?
47 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Dangan Castle, Dangan Obelisk and Summerhill Playground.
How do you get to Rathmolyon?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
703
buildings on the model
0
named streets
5
named places
17
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 Q4390783). 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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