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About Rahara

Rahara is a village in County Roscommon, 66 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R362. The map gives it 263 buildings and 2 named streets, with 1 place named on them in 14 kinds, and 57 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 34th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
66 km north-east of Galway, 126 km from Dublin
Position
53.5255° N, 8.1448° W
Roads
R362
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
263 buildings, 2 streets, 1 named place in 14 kinds
Village of Rahara on the R362 in County Roscommon
Village of Rahara on the R362 in County Roscommon·Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Longfield, Roscommon
Castles of Connacht: Longfield, Roscommon·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Roscommon 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.

253,59151,89770,25918412022

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 57 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R362 running through Rahara.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Rahara?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 66 km north-east of Galway and 126 km from Dublin, on the R362.
How big is Rahara?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 263 buildings, 2 named streets and 1 named place, which by building count makes it the 34th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Rahara?
57 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Pollaharbaun, Loobinroe Windmill and Cloghogle Stone.
How do you get to Rahara?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R362.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
263
buildings on the model
2
named streets
1
named places
14
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. 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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