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About Hacketstown

Hacketstown, Baile Haicéid in Irish, is a village in County Carlow, 52 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R727, R747 and L2004. The map gives it 772 buildings and 8 named streets, with 22 places named on them in 30 kinds, and 72 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Where
52 km north-east of Kilkenny, 57 km from Dublin
Position
52.8652° N, 6.5594° W, 166 m above sea level
Roads
R727, R747 and L2004
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
772 buildings, 8 streets, 22 named places in 30 kinds
Entering Hacketstown on Mill St
Entering Hacketstown on Mill St·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Grassed area with monument
Grassed area with monument·Trevor Littlewood, 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 72 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R727, R747 and L2004 running through Hacketstown.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Coláiste Eoin Hacketstown.

Questions people ask

Where is Hacketstown?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 52 km north-east of Kilkenny and 57 km from Dublin, on the R727, R747 and L2004.
How big is Hacketstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 772 buildings, 8 named streets and 22 named places, which by building count makes it the 7th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.
What is there to see in Hacketstown?
72 things the map records in and around it, the closest being 1798 Memorial, Eagle Hill and Constable Hill.
How do you get to Hacketstown?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and JJ Kavanagh.
Has County Carlow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 86,228 people in the county in 1841 and 61,968 in 2022.
772
buildings on the model
8
named streets
22
named places
30
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 Q2090983). 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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