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About Oldleighlin

Oldleighlin, Seanleithghlinn in Irish, is a village in County Carlow, 18 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the M9. The map gives it 475 buildings and 3 named streets, with 7 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 85 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Where
18 km north-east of Kilkenny, 85 km from Dublin
Position
52.7364° N, 7.0239° W
Roads
M9
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
475 buildings, 3 streets, 7 named places in 19 kinds
Choir of St Lazerian's Cathedral, looking east.
Choir of St Lazerian's Cathedral, looking east.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View from the choir through the crossing into the nave.
View from the choir through the crossing into the nave.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 85 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M9 running through Oldleighlin.

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 Oldleighlin?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 18 km north-east of Kilkenny and 85 km from Dublin, on the M9.
How big is Oldleighlin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 475 buildings, 3 named streets and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.
What is there to see in Oldleighlin?
85 things the map records in and around it, the closest being 1798, Saint Molaises Well and Ballyknockan Church (ruin).
How do you get to Oldleighlin?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the M9.
Has County Carlow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 86,228 people in the county in 1841 and 61,968 in 2022.
475
buildings on the model
3
named streets
7
named places
19
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 Q3776314). 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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