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About Kilternan

Kilternan, Cill Tiarnáin in Irish, is a village in County Dublin, 13 km south of Dublin. It stands on the L3021, R116 and R117. The map gives it 1,579 buildings and 42 named streets, with 40 places named on them in 40 kinds, and 480 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 41th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
13 km south of Dublin
Position
53.2355° N, 6.1934° W
Roads
L3021, R116, R117 and L3022
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,579 buildings, 42 streets, 40 named places in 40 kinds
Kilternan Abbey Golden Ball Ireland 06
Kilternan Abbey Golden Ball Ireland 06·Robert Augustus Henry L'Estrange, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kilternan Abbey Golden Ball Ireland 04
Kilternan Abbey Golden Ball Ireland 04·Robert Augustus Henry L'Estrange, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

Kilternan in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1583 to 1990. That is not a history of Kilternan, 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.

15831990Rathfarnham CastleNational Print Museum
The sixteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

County Dublin 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.

1,458,154372,77318412022

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 480 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L3021, R116, R117 and L3022 running through Kilternan.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 28 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Kilternan Church of Ireland National School and Our Lady of the Wayside National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilternan?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 13 km south of Dublin and 13 km from Dublin, on the L3021, R116 and R117.
How big is Kilternan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,579 buildings, 42 named streets and 40 named places, which by building count makes it the 41th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Kilternan?
480 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kilternan Church, Kilternan Abbey and Kiltiernan Portal Tomb.
How do you get to Kilternan?
4 bus and train lines call at 28 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus and Go-Ahead Ireland.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
1,579
buildings on the model
42
named streets
40
named places
40
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. 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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