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About Clonegal

Clonegal, Cluain na nGall in Irish, is a village in County Carlow, 41 km east of Kilkenny, with 231 people at the 2006 census. The map gives it 304 buildings and 2 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 60 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Population
231 at the 2006 census
Where
41 km east of Kilkenny, 77 km from Dublin
Position
52.6954° N, 6.6484° W, 83 m above sea level
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
304 buildings, 2 streets, 10 named places in 18 kinds
Watch House Village, County Wexford, Ireland. The bridge leads into County Carlow and the twin village of Clonegal.
Watch House Village, County Wexford, Ireland. The bridge leads into County Carlow and the twin village of Clonegal.·Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Derry River in Clonegal geograph.org.uk 1790987
The Derry River in Clonegal geograph.org.uk 1790987·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 60 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Clonegal; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Clonegal?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 41 km east of Kilkenny and 77 km from Dublin.
How big is Clonegal?
231 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 304 buildings and 2 named streets.
What is there to see in Clonegal?
60 things the map records in and around it, the closest being End / Start of Wicklow Way, Start / End Point Wicklow Way and Huntington Castle.
How do you get to Clonegal?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Carlow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 86,228 people in the county in 1841 and 61,968 in 2022.
304
buildings on the model
2
named streets
10
named places
18
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 Q2031231). 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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