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House prices in Rathdowney

The median house in Rathdowney, Co. Laois sold for

€220,000

in 2025, across 25 sales that counted.

On the year before, the median rose 35.4%. Over the five years to 2025 it rose 41.9%.

Sales here carried the Eircode area R32.

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What the sales say

The kind of place Rathdowney is

Read out of the sales themselves. None of this is a description of what Rathdowney is like to live in, which we have no way of knowing. It is what changed hands here.

  • Established housing

    Almost nothing sold here since 2016 was new: 0% of sales. What changes hands is what is already there.

  • In line with Laois

    The median here sat within a quarter of the county median in 2025, so it tracks the county rather than standing apart from it.

  • Rarely comes up

    25 sales counted in 2025. At that rate, waiting for the right house here means waiting.

The shape of it

Year by year

  1. 2012€54,550
  2. 2015€47,000
  3. 2016€75,000
  4. 2017€90,000
  5. 2018€105,500
  6. 2019€144,000
  7. 2020€155,000
  8. 2021€130,000
  9. 2022€145,500
  10. 2023€200,000
  11. 2024€162,500
  12. 2025€220,000
Median sale price by year, with the sales excluded from each figure
YearMedianMiddle halfSalesNew buildsSet aside
2026part yeartoo few sales–80%1
2025€220,000€127,000 to €250,000250%2
2024€162,500€110,000 to €209,500260%0
2023€200,000€107,000 to €235,000210%2
2022€145,500€107,250 to €215,000260%0
2021€130,000€80,000 to €167,500250%1
2020€155,000€100,000 to €188,000220%3
2019€144,000€97,000 to €186,250160%2
2018€105,500€61,375 to €156,250220%2
2017€90,000€69,000 to €130,833150%3
2016€75,000€50,500 to €97,750180%3
2015€47,000€37,875 to €65,000120%2
2014too few sales–70%1
2013too few sales–517%2
2012€54,550€39,500 to €85,250120%2
2011too few sales–70%2
2010too few sales–357%7

Set aside counts the sales left out of each median: ones that were not at arm’s length, and ones where the recorded price left out the tax the buyer paid.

Most recent

The last 12 sales in Rathdowney

Addresses as filed for stamp duty, with the Eircode where the register carries one. Streets are linked where enough has sold on them for a page of their own.

What your money buys

What sold, and at what price

Every counted sale in Rathdowney since 2023, sorted into bands. Recent years only, deliberately: over the whole register nearly half of everywhere looks cheap, because of what houses cost in 2012. The question this answers is whether anything at all sells for what you have now.

  • €0k to €150k30 (38%)
  • €150k to €250k35 (44%)
  • €250k to €350k10 (13%)
  • €350k to €500k4 (5%)
  • €500k to €750k1 (1%)

Where the sales are

Busiest streets and estates in Rathdowney

All 15 of them, counted over the whole register, so these span years rather than describing this one. A street needs five sales before it appears at all.

Recorded crime

Incidents at Rathdowney Garda station

Incidents recorded by this station across the district it covers, which is wider than the town it is named after. These are counts and not rates: there is no population figure here to divide by, so they cannot be used to compare one place with another. What they can show is the direction of travel in this one place.

Year by year

  1. 202075
  2. 202177
  3. 202271
  4. 2023115
  5. 202496
  6. 202579

Up 5% on 2020.

What was recorded in 2025

Theft and related offences
17
Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences
14
Damage to property and to the environment offences
11
Public order and other social code offences
11
Road and traffic offences
11

The five largest categories.

Source: Central Statistics Office, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, totalled by station and year rather than reproduced.

Elsewhere in Laois

Every place in Laois

Renting instead

If you are renting in Rathdowney

Rent is capped everywhere in the State now, at 2% or inflation a year, whichever is lower. Work out what your own rent can rise to or read what replaced Rent Pressure Zones.

How the place was worked out

The register has no town column. It has an address, and the place is read out of it: the county is stripped off and the part left at the end is the locality. Addresses that end in a street name rather than a place are not counted towards anywhere.

A place appears here only where at least forty sales were recorded in it, and a figure is printed for a year only where at least ten sales sat behind it.

Source: Property Services Regulatory Authority, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence and summarised rather than reproduced. Imported 4 August 2026.

This is information, not legal or tax advice. Every figure here links to the source it came from, and that source is the one to rely on.