Skip to content
Meath
County Meath · Leinster

About Ratoath

Ratoath, Ráth Tó in Irish, is a town in County Meath, 22 km north-west of Dublin, with 10,077 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the R125, R155 and L1006. The map gives it 5,483 buildings and 80 named streets, with 111 places named on them in 69 kinds, and 66 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 52 settlements this site covers in County Meath.

Population
10,077 at the 2022 census
Where
22 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.5073° N, 6.4641° W, 90 m above sea level
Roads
R125, R155, L1006, L1007, L1014, L1016 and L5018
Governed
Meath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
5,483 buildings, 80 streets, 111 named places in 69 kinds
Moulden Bridge Junction east of Ratoath, Co Meath. A bridge not noticeable from the road lies between the two junctions.
Moulden Bridge Junction east of Ratoath, Co Meath. A bridge not noticeable from the road lies between the two junctions.·C O'Flanagan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Glasshouses in a rural setting
Glasshouses in a rural setting·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 66 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R125, R155, L1006, L1007, L1014, L1016 and L5018 running through Ratoath.

By bus or train

11 lines call at 26 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: Ratoath Senior National School, Ratoath College, Saint Paul's National School and Ratoath Junior National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ratoath?
In County Meath, in the province of Leinster, 22 km north-west of Dublin and 22 km from Dublin, on the R125, R155 and L1006.
How big is Ratoath?
10,077 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 5,483 buildings and 80 named streets.
What is there to see in Ratoath?
66 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Motte, Steeplechase Playground and Pow Wow Playground.
How do you get to Ratoath?
11 bus and train lines call at 26 stops here in the published timetable, run by Ashbourne Connect, Bus Éireann and Go-Ahead Ireland.
Has County Meath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 183,828 people in the county in 1841 and 220,826 in 2022.
5,483
buildings on the model
80
named streets
111
named places
69
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 Q1016286). 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.

Back to Ratoath·Getting to Ratoath·County Meath