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Westmeath
County Westmeath · Leinster

About Rathwire

Rathwire, Ráth Ghuaire in Irish, is a village in County Westmeath, 61 km west of Dublin. It stands on the L1015. The map gives it 597 buildings and 3 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 28 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Where
61 km west of Dublin
Position
53.5082° N, 7.1412° W
Roads
L1015
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
597 buildings, 3 streets, 9 named places in 14 kinds
County Westmeath, Thomastown Bridge.
County Westmeath, Thomastown Bridge.·Royalcanalrunner, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Westmeath, Heatherstown Bridge.
County Westmeath, Heatherstown Bridge.·Royalcanalrunner, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 28 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1015 running through Rathwire.

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 Joseph's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Rathwire?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 61 km west of Dublin and 61 km from Dublin, on the L1015.
How big is Rathwire?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 597 buildings, 3 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 12th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.
What is there to see in Rathwire?
28 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St. Bridget's Well, Thomastown Harbour and Raharney Ringfort.
How do you get to Rathwire?
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.
597
buildings on the model
3
named streets
9
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 Q26715598). 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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