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County Westmeath · Leinster

About Raharney

Raharney, Ráth Fhearna in Irish, is a village in County Westmeath, 59 km west of Dublin. The map gives it 289 buildings and 0 named streets, with 7 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 35 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Where
59 km west of Dublin
Position
53.5240° N, 7.0954° W, 75 m above sea level
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
289 buildings, 0 streets, 7 named places in 14 kinds
Ireland in Ruins: Grangemore House, Co. Westmeath (1)
Ireland in Ruins: Grangemore House, Co. Westmeath (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ireland in Ruins: Grangemore House, Co. Westmeath (2)
Ireland in Ruins: Grangemore House, Co. Westmeath (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Westmeath 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.

141,30052,86196,22118412022

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 35 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Raharney?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 59 km west of Dublin and 59 km from Dublin.
How big is Raharney?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 289 buildings, 0 named streets and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 22th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.
What is there to see in Raharney?
35 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Raharney Ringfort, Thomastown Harbour and St. Bridget's Well.
How do you get to Raharney?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Westmeath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 141,300 people in the county in 1841 and 96,221 in 2022.
289
buildings on the model
0
named streets
7
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 (item Q4391052). 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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