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Rathvilly
Sign in to saveRathvilly () is a village, civil parish and townland in County Carlow, Ireland. The village is on the River Slaney, near the border with County Wicklow and County Kildare, from Tullow and from Baltinglass. It is also on the N81 national secondary route. Rathvilly won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1961, 1963, and 1968.
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Place details
- Region
- Leinster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 944
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
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Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.name
- Rathvilly
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Rathvilly,_County_Carlow_-_geograph.ie_-_1794584.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Irish Grid Reference
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Leinster
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- County Carlow
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Dáil Éireann
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Wicklow
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 120
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Carlow
- Population
- 796
- Elevation
- 120
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Rathvilly, County Carlow - geograph.ie - 1794584.jpg
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- Irish Grid Reference
- S880817
- Commons category
- Rathvilly
- historic county
- County Carlow
- native label
- Ráth Bhile
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Rathvilly () is a village, civil parish and townland in County Carlow, Ireland. The village is on the River Slaney, near the border with County Wicklow and County Kildare, from Tullow and from Baltinglass. It is also on the N81 national secondary route. Rathvilly won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1961, 1963, and 1968.
==History== In the centre of the village, there is a statue dedicated to Kevin Barry, an 18-year-old who was executed for his part in the Irish War of Independence on 1 November 1920. Though from Dublin, Barry had family locally and had attended the national school in Rathvilly.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rathvilly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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