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About Castleisland

Castleisland, Oileán Ciarraí in Irish, is a town in County Kerry, 74 km south-west of Limerick. It stands on the N21, N23 and R577. The map gives it 3,407 buildings and 38 named streets, with 167 places named on them in 96 kinds, and 85 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Population
2,536, as the map records it
Where
74 km south-west of Limerick, 249 km from Dublin
Position
52.2312° N, 9.4637° W, 32 m above sea level
Roads
N21, N23, R577, L2029 and L2041
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Bannalec, France
On the model
3,407 buildings, 38 streets, 167 named places in 96 kinds
Cul De Sac off College Road Castleisland
Cul De Sac off College Road Castleisland·Raymond Norris, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Former St. Stephen's church, Castleisland
Former St. Stephen's church, Castleisland·Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Kerry 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.

293,880112,772156,45818412022

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 85 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N21, N23, R577, L2029 and L2041 running through Castleisland.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Castleisland?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 74 km south-west of Limerick and 249 km from Dublin, on the N21, N23 and R577.
How big is Castleisland?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,407 buildings, 38 named streets and 167 named places, which by building count makes it the 5th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Castleisland?
85 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Castleisland Community Museum, Castleisland Playground and Tobermaing.
How do you get to Castleisland?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
3,407
buildings on the model
38
named streets
167
named places
96
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 Q1049626). 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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