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About Kilkishen

Kilkishen, Cill Chisín in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 18 km north-west of Limerick. It stands on the R462. The map gives it 162 buildings and 8 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 155 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 39th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
18 km north-west of Limerick, 177 km from Dublin
Position
52.8067° N, 8.7458° W, 31 m above sea level
Roads
R462
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
162 buildings, 8 streets, 14 named places in 17 kinds
Castles of Munster, Kilkishen, Clare geograph.org.uk 1542578
Castles of Munster, Kilkishen, Clare geograph.org.uk 1542578·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kilkishen Castle, Co Clare
Kilkishen Castle, Co Clare·C O'Flanagan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Kilkishen in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the fifteenth century to 1965. That is not a history of Kilkishen, 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 fifteenth century1965Quin AbbeyThe Ringfort
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryQuin AbbeyHistoric churches · 8.0 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the 1490sBallyhannon CastleCastles · 11 km from the centre
The sixteenth century
The twentieth century

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 155 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R462 running through Kilkishen.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 4 stops 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 Kilkishen?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 18 km north-west of Limerick and 177 km from Dublin, on the R462.
How big is Kilkishen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 162 buildings, 8 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 39th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Kilkishen?
155 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Clonlea Church, Clonlea Lough and Clonbrick Lough.
How do you get to Kilkishen?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
162
buildings on the model
8
named streets
14
named places
17
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 Q15462101). 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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