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About Bracknagh

Bracknagh is a village in County Offaly, 58 km west of Dublin. It stands on the R419 and R442. The map gives it 407 buildings and 6 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 64 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 26th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
58 km west of Dublin
Position
53.2097° N, 7.0963° W
Roads
R419 and R442
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
407 buildings, 6 streets, 5 named places in 19 kinds
BridgeBracknagh
BridgeBracknagh·Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The mouth of the Slate River.
The mouth of the Slate River.·Bjwyse, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Offaly 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.

146,85751,30883,15018412022

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 64 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R419 and R442 running through Bracknagh.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Saint Broghans National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Bracknagh?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 58 km west of Dublin and 58 km from Dublin, on the R419 and R442.
How big is Bracknagh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 407 buildings, 6 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 26th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Bracknagh?
64 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Offaly Castle (ruins), Dean Preston's Former Residence and Brooklawn.
How do you get to Bracknagh?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R419 and R442.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
407
buildings on the model
6
named streets
5
named places
19
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 Q4095775). 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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