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About Royaloak

Royaloak, An Dair Ríoga in Irish, is a village in County Carlow, 19 km east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R448 and R724. The map gives it 498 buildings and 5 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 93 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Where
19 km east of Kilkenny, 87 km from Dublin
Position
52.7028° N, 6.9853° W
Roads
R448 and R724
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
498 buildings, 5 streets, 10 named places in 20 kinds
ruined lock keeper's house at Bagenalstown Lock (No. 10)
ruined lock keeper's house at Bagenalstown Lock (No. 10)·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bagenalstown Lock looking upstream, standing on the Barrow Way
Bagenalstown Lock looking upstream, standing on the Barrow Way·A.-K. D., CC0 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 93 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R448 and R724 running through Royaloak. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Presentation De La Salle College.

Questions people ask

Where is Royaloak?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 19 km east of Kilkenny and 87 km from Dublin, on the R448 and R724.
How big is Royaloak?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 498 buildings, 5 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.
What is there to see in Royaloak?
93 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Oak Grove Millennium Park, Kiddies Kingdom and The Fair Green.
How do you get to Royaloak?
4 bus and train lines call at 9 stops here in the published timetable, run by Barrow Bus, Bus Éireann and Dunnes Coaches.
Has County Carlow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 86,228 people in the county in 1841 and 61,968 in 2022.
498
buildings on the model
5
named streets
10
named places
20
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 Q3776325). 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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