Rochfortbridge
Sign in to saveRochfortbridge () is a village in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is at the intersection of the R400 and the R446 (formerly the N6) roads, 12 km south of Mullingar. As of the 2016 census, the population of Rochfortbridge was 1,473.
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Place details
- Locality
- Rochfortbridge
- Region
- Leinster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 1,494
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Rochfortbridge
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
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- Aerial view of Rochfortbridge
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- Ireland
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- right
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- Location in Ireland
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- Country
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- Ireland
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Leinster
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- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- County Westmeath
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- Dáil constituency
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- Longford–Westmeath
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- EP constituency
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- Midlands–North-West
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- History
- Mercy Convent and St. Joseph's
- Historic sites
- Amenities and development
- Demographics
- See also
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Rochfortbridge () is a village in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is at the intersection of the R400 and the R446 (formerly the N6) roads, 12 km south of Mullingar. As of the 2016 census, the population of Rochfortbridge was 1,473.
==History== Rochfortbridge is spread between the townlands of Castlelost and Rahanine, both within Castlelost parish, which was inhabited at least as early as 590 AD by monks under Mo Chutu (later St. Carthage). The village was originally known as Beggar's Bridge, supposedly after a beggar who died at a river crossing; enough money was found in his pockets to build a bridge.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rochfortbridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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