Rathgar
Rathgar is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Originally a village, which from 1862 was part of the township of Rathmines and Rathgar, it was absorbed by the growing city and became a suburb in 1930. It lies about three kilometres south of the city centre.Places of Interest
Highlights: Herzog Park and St. Luke’s Hospital, Rathgar.
Rathfarnham Castle
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Terenure and Dartry.
Terenure
Suburb
Terenure, called Roundtown from around 1800-1870, is a middle class suburb of Dublin in Ireland.
Rathfarnham
Village
Rathgar
- Type: Suburb with 8,390 residents
- Description: suburb of Dublin
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.31185° or 53° 18′ 43″ north
Longitude
-6.27447° or 6° 16′ 28″ west
Population
8,390
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Open location code
9C5M8P6G+P6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Urdu—“Rathgar” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Ratqar”
- Basque: “Rathgar”
- Belarusian: “Ратгар”
- Bulgarian: “Ратгар”
- Bulgarian: “Ратхгар”
- Cebuano: “Rathgar”
- Chinese: “拉斯加”
- Crimean Tatar: “Ratgar”
- Czech: “Rathgar”
- Danish: “Rathgar”
- Dutch: “Rathgar”
- Esperanto: “Rathgar”
- French: “Rathgar”
- Galician: “Rathgar”
- German: “Rathgar”
- Irish: “Ráth Garbh”
- Italian: “Rathgar”
- Japanese: “ラスガー”
- Luxembourgish: “Rathgar”
- Manx: “Ráth Garbh”
- Polish: “Rathgar”
- Russian: “Ратгар”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ráth Garbh”
- Slovenian: “Rathgar”
- Spanish: “Rathgar”
- Swedish: “Rathgar”
- Tajik: “Ратгар”
- Urdu: “راٹھ گار”
- “Rathgar”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Vaughan’s Corner and Terenure Cross.
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Highlights: Ultimate Health & Body and Free library.
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