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About Rathdrum

Rathdrum, Ráth Droma in Irish, is a town in County Wicklow, 46 km south of Dublin. It stands on the R752, R755 and L2120. The map gives it 1,713 buildings and 40 named streets, with 63 places named on them in 51 kinds, and 102 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 10th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Population
2,264, as the map records it
Where
46 km south of Dublin
Position
52.9316° N, 6.2314° W, 96 m above sea level
Roads
R752, R755, L2120, L2127, L2148, L2149 and L2172
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,713 buildings, 40 streets, 63 named places in 51 kinds
View of a village street, with pedestrians, in an unidentified location = Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow! (8453130686)
View of a village street, with pedestrians, in an unidentified location = Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow! (8453130686)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
St Saviour's Church
St Saviour's Church·Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Rathdrum in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1162 to 1952. That is not a history of Rathdrum, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

11621952Saint Saviour's PrioryZoetis
The twelfth century
The twentieth century
  • 1952ZoetisCompanies · 1.9 km from the centre
  • 1952ZoetisCompanies · 2.2 km from the centre

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 102 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R752, R755, L2120, L2127, L2148, L2149 and L2172 running through Rathdrum. 9 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 2 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Avondale Community College, Saint Saviours National School and Rathdrum Boys National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Rathdrum?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 46 km south of Dublin and 46 km from Dublin, on the R752, R755 and L2120.
How big is Rathdrum?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,713 buildings, 40 named streets and 63 named places, which by building count makes it the 10th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
What is there to see in Rathdrum?
102 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Parnell National Memorial Park, Parnell Monument and Wicklow 400.
How do you get to Rathdrum?
2 bus and train lines call at 9 stops here in the published timetable, run by Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Wicklow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 126,143 people in the county in 1841 and 155,851 in 2022.
1,713
buildings on the model
40
named streets
63
named places
51
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 Q2333424). 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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