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County Carlow · Leinster

About Newtown

Newtown, An Baile Nua in Irish, is a village in County Carlow, 27 km east of Kilkenny. It stands on the L3049. The map gives it 237 buildings and 1 named street, with 1 place named on them in 16 kinds, and 77 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 25th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Where
27 km east of Kilkenny, 81 km from Dublin
Position
52.7223° N, 6.8760° W
Roads
L3049
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
237 buildings, 1 street, 1 named place in 16 kinds
Trailer and Bales
Trailer and Bales·kevin higgins, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Old Cottage
Old Cottage·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 77 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L3049 running through Newtown.

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 Newtown?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 27 km east of Kilkenny and 81 km from Dublin, on the L3049.
How big is Newtown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 237 buildings, 1 named street and 1 named place, which by building count makes it the 25th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.
What is there to see in Newtown?
77 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballymoon Castle, Agha Church (in ruins) and Carrig Wood.
How do you get to Newtown?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the L3049.
Has County Carlow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 86,228 people in the county in 1841 and 61,968 in 2022.
237
buildings on the model
1
named streets
1
named places
16
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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