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About Rahan

Rahan is a village in County Offaly, 74 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the L2007 and L2011. The map gives it 466 buildings and 5 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 78 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 18th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
74 km north of Kilkenny, 90 km from Dublin
Position
53.2810° N, 7.6153° W, 50 m above sea level
Roads
L2007 and L2011
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
466 buildings, 5 streets, 9 named places in 19 kinds
Rahan Two Churches
Rahan Two Churches·Seán Dunne, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rahan Two Churches
Rahan Two Churches·Seán Dunne, 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 78 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L2007 and L2011 running through Rahan.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Killina Secondary School and Scoil Charthaigh Naofa.

Questions people ask

Where is Rahan?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 74 km north of Kilkenny and 90 km from Dublin, on the L2007 and L2011.
How big is Rahan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 466 buildings, 5 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 18th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Rahan?
78 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Priest's Bridge, Old Quay and Trumpet Hill.
How do you get to Rahan?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the L2007 and L2011.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
466
buildings on the model
5
named streets
9
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 Q3776272). 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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