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Carlow
County Carlow · Leinster

About Carlow

Carlow, Ceatharlach in Irish, is a town in County Carlow, 30 km north-east of Kilkenny, with 24,272 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the N80, R417 and R430. The map gives it 14,133 buildings and 208 named streets, with 397 places named on them in 133 kinds, and 107 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Population
24,272 at the 2016 census
Where
30 km north-east of Kilkenny, 72 km from Dublin
Position
52.8408° N, 6.9261° W, 57 m above sea level
Area
124.7 km²
Roads
N80, R417, R430, R448, R725, R726, R888 and R924
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Dole, France
On the model
14,133 buildings, 208 streets, 397 named places in 133 kinds
Carlow Cathedral St Patrick Preaching to the Kings 2009 09 03
Carlow Cathedral St Patrick Preaching to the Kings 2009 09 03·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Carlow Courthouse, 2021-07-03
Carlow Courthouse, 2021-07-03·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Carlow in order

11 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1973. That is not a history of Carlow, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the twelfth century1973Round Tower (site of)Carlow County Museum
The twelfth century
The thirteenth century
  • the 1210sCarlow CastleCastles · 830 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland, national monument of Ireland
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

County Carlow since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

86,22833,34261,96818412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 107 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N80, R417, R430, R448, R725, R726, R888 and R924 running through Carlow. 38 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 20 lines call at 73 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

14 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Carlow?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 30 km north-east of Kilkenny and 72 km from Dublin, on the N80, R417 and R430.
How big is Carlow?
24,272 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 14,133 buildings and 208 named streets.
What is there to see in Carlow?
107 things the map records in and around it, the closest being An Gháirdín Beo, William Dargan and Carlow Military Museum.
How do you get to Carlow?
20 bus and train lines call at 73 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Dunnes Coaches and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Carlow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 86,228 people in the county in 1841 and 61,968 in 2022.
14,133
buildings on the model
208
named streets
397
named places
133
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q211703). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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