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About Kilkee

Kilkee, Cill Chaoi in Irish, is a town in County Clare, 68 km west of Limerick, with 1,325 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N67, R487 and L2009. The map gives it 1,915 buildings and 15 named streets, with 44 places named on them in 31 kinds, and 45 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Population
1,325 at the 2006 census
Where
68 km west of Limerick, 238 km from Dublin
Position
52.6792° N, 9.6442° W, 20 m above sea level
Area
5.24 km²
Roads
N67, R487 and L2009
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Plouhinec, France
On the model
1,915 buildings, 15 streets, 44 named places in 31 kinds
A view of the beach and the West End of the town of Kilkee
A view of the beach and the West End of the town of Kilkee·Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Stella Maris Hotel, Kilkee, Co. Clare, late 19th century (7368081294)
Stella Maris Hotel, Kilkee, Co. Clare, late 19th century (7368081294)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

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.

286,39473,597127,93818412022

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 45 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N67, R487 and L2009 running through Kilkee.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilkee?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 68 km west of Limerick and 238 km from Dublin, on the N67, R487 and L2009.
How big is Kilkee?
1,325 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 1,915 buildings and 15 named streets.
What is there to see in Kilkee?
45 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kilkee Tourist Information Office, Kilkee Playground and Diamond Rock.
How do you get to Kilkee?
4 bus and train lines call at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Limerick Clare.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
1,915
buildings on the model
15
named streets
44
named places
31
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 Q1588602). 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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