About Kilfenora
Kilfenora, Cill Fhionnúrach in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 34 km south of Galway. It stands on the R481. The map gives it 397 buildings and 1 named street, with 29 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 150 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
- Where
- 34 km south of Galway, 201 km from Dublin
- Position
- 52.9899° N, 9.2170° W, 20 m above sea level
- Roads
- R481
- Governed
- Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
- On the model
- 397 buildings, 1 street, 29 named places in 26 kinds
Kilfenora in order
7 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the tenth century to 1991. That is not a history of Kilfenora, 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.
- the tenth centuryCaherconnell Stone FortRuins · 7.7 km from the centre
- the tenth centuryCaherconnellRingforts and sites · 7.7 km from the centre
- the tenth centuryCaherconnellRingforts and sites · 7.6 km from the centre
- 1480Leamaneh CastleCastles · 5.2 km from the centre
- the fifteenth centuryBallinalacken CastleCastles · 10 km from the centre
- the sixteenth centuryDoonagore CastleCastles · 12 km from the centre
- 1991Burren National ParkNature reserves · 9.8 km from the centre
County Clare 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.
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.
- Burren Centre Kilfenora40 mTourist offices
- Kilfenora Abbey80 mHistoric churches
- Doorty's Cross90 mHigh crosses
- High Cross150 mHigh crosses
- Caheremon440 mRingforts and sites
- Kilfenora Church470 mHistoric churches
- Ballyshanny Castle1.1 kmCastles
- Ballybreen Fort1.3 kmRingforts and sites
- Caherminnaun1.5 kmRingforts and sites
- Caherlahertagh1.5 kmRingforts and sites
- Ballykeel Fort1.6 kmRingforts and sites
- Killeamery Church1.7 kmHistoric churches
Getting around
The map records the R481 running through Kilfenora.
4 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
Questions people ask
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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 Q1011989). 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.