Present Day
The village has a new N6 Dual Carriageway from Kinnegad to Athlone bypassing the village. The village has two primary and one secondary school within the village with two further primary schools in the parish.
The village of Rochfortbridge was rural agricultural up to the 1980s but this has changed and at present there are 23 males and 1 female engaged in agriculture ,forestry or fishing.
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