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About Rathdangan

Rathdangan is a village in County Wicklow, 51 km south of Dublin. It stands on the L3260. The map gives it 227 buildings and 1 named street, with 2 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 97 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 38th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Where
51 km south of Dublin
Position
52.9198° N, 6.5455° W
Roads
L3260
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
227 buildings, 1 street, 2 named places in 13 kinds
Keadeen Mountain viewed from Rathdangan, Co Wicklow, Ireland.
Keadeen Mountain viewed from Rathdangan, Co Wicklow, Ireland.·Sarah777, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Church of St Mary
Church of St Mary·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Wicklow 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.

155,85157,591126,14318412022

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 97 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L3260 running through Rathdangan.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Rathcoyle National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Rathdangan?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 51 km south of Dublin and 51 km from Dublin, on the L3260.
How big is Rathdangan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 227 buildings, 1 named street and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 38th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
What is there to see in Rathdangan?
97 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carrig Mountain, Slievereagh and Toorboy Mountain.
How do you get to Rathdangan?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the L3260.
Has County Wicklow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 126,143 people in the county in 1841 and 155,851 in 2022.
227
buildings on the model
1
named streets
2
named places
13
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 Q4390739). 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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