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About Kingscourt

Kingscourt, Dún an Rí in Irish, is a town in County Cavan, 71 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R162, R164 and R165. The map gives it 3,450 buildings and 76 named streets, with 158 places named on them in 76 kinds, and 201 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Population
2,955, as the map records it
Where
71 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.9050° N, 6.8047° W, 100 m above sea level
Area
1.67 km²
Roads
R162, R164, R165, R179, L3536 and L3537
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
3,450 buildings, 76 streets, 158 named places in 76 kinds
Main Street, Kingscourt
Main Street, Kingscourt·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hall Street, Kingscourt
Hall Street, Kingscourt·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Cavan 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.

243,15852,61881,70418412022

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 201 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R162, R164, R165, R179, L3536 and L3537 running through Kingscourt. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 8 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Saint Joseph's National School, Coláiste Dún An Rí and Cabra Central National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Kingscourt?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 71 km north-west of Dublin and 71 km from Dublin, on the R162, R164 and R165.
How big is Kingscourt?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,450 buildings, 76 named streets and 158 named places, which by building count makes it the 4th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Kingscourt?
201 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kingscourt ICW, Fox Covert and Greenway.
How do you get to Kingscourt?
5 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bailieboro Car & Coach Hire, Bus Éireann and Royal Breffni Tours.
Has County Cavan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 243,158 people in the county in 1841 and 81,704 in 2022.
3,450
buildings on the model
76
named streets
158
named places
76
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 Q2269536). 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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