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County Carlow · Leinster

About Tullow

Tullow, An Tulach in Irish, is a town in County Carlow, 39 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the N81, R725 and L2010. The map gives it 3,596 buildings and 39 named streets, with 92 places named on them in 52 kinds, and 79 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Where
39 km north-east of Kilkenny, 69 km from Dublin
Position
52.8031° N, 6.7377° W, 95 m above sea level
Roads
N81, R725, L2010, L2012, L2029, L2030, L2032 and L2036
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
3,596 buildings, 39 streets, 92 named places in 52 kinds
Nave, looking east.
Nave, looking east.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Tullow, County Carlow. The N81 crossing the River Slaney in the centre of Tullow.
Tullow, County Carlow. The N81 crossing the River Slaney in the centre of Tullow.·thejmii, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Tullow in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1805 to 1831. That is not a history of Tullow, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

18051831Church of the Most Holy RosaryTullow St Columba
The nineteenth century

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 79 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N81, R725, L2010, L2012, L2029, L2030, L2032 and L2036 running through Tullow. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 10 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

5 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Tullow?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 39 km north-east of Kilkenny and 69 km from Dublin, on the N81, R725 and L2010.
How big is Tullow?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,596 buildings, 39 named streets and 92 named places, which by building count makes it the 2th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.
What is there to see in Tullow?
79 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tullow Museum, Father John Murphy Memorial and Slaney.
How do you get to Tullow?
5 bus and train lines call at 10 stops here in the published timetable, run by Ardcavan Coach Tours, 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.
3,596
buildings on the model
39
named streets
92
named places
52
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 Q1025610). 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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