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About Glynn

Glynn, An Gleann in Irish, is a village in County Carlow, 29 km south-east of Kilkenny. The map gives it 329 buildings and 1 named street, with 6 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 137 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Where
29 km south-east of Kilkenny, 104 km from Dublin
Position
52.5032° N, 6.9063° W
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
329 buildings, 1 street, 6 named places in 18 kinds
Templenaboe Church
Templenaboe Church·Curatorsmhc, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church Site
Church Site·kevin higgins, 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 137 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Glynn?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 29 km south-east of Kilkenny and 104 km from Dublin.
How big is Glynn?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 329 buildings, 1 named street and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 23th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.
What is there to see in Glynn?
137 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St Mullin's Oratory, Templenaboe and Saint James's Cell.
How do you get to Glynn?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow.
Has County Carlow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 86,228 people in the county in 1841 and 61,968 in 2022.
329
buildings on the model
1
named streets
6
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. 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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