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About Fennagh

Fennagh, Fionnmhach in Irish, is a village in County Carlow, 28 km east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R724 and L3003. The map gives it 429 buildings and 3 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 70 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Where
28 km east of Kilkenny, 81 km from Dublin
Position
52.7119° N, 6.8472° W
Roads
R724 and L3003
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
429 buildings, 3 streets, 2 named places in 17 kinds
Mountpleasant House, Mountpleasant, Co. Carlow (1)
Mountpleasant House, Mountpleasant, Co. Carlow (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Mountpleasant House, Mountpleasant, Co. Carlow (1)
Mountpleasant House, Mountpleasant, Co. Carlow (1)·Mike Searle, 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 70 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R724 and L3003 running through Fennagh.

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 Fennagh?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 28 km east of Kilkenny and 81 km from Dublin, on the R724 and L3003.
How big is Fennagh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 429 buildings, 3 named streets and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 17th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.
What is there to see in Fennagh?
70 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carrig Wood, Carrig Wood and Ballymoon Castle.
How do you get to Fennagh?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R724 and L3003.
Has County Carlow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 86,228 people in the county in 1841 and 61,968 in 2022.
429
buildings on the model
3
named streets
2
named places
17
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 Q2085883). 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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