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About Chapeltown

Chapeltown, An Caol in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 128 km west of Cork. The map gives it 318 buildings and 3 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 107 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 57th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
128 km west of Cork, 318 km from Dublin
Position
51.9072° N, 10.3361° W
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
318 buildings, 3 streets, 9 named places in 18 kinds
Geokaun Mountain - The view to the northeast from the top of the mountain
Geokaun Mountain - The view to the northeast from the top of the mountain·Chris Gorringe, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
500px provided description: Cromwells Lighthouse [#sea ,#lighthouse ,#ocean ,#waves ,#Cromwells Lighthouse]
500px provided description: Cromwells Lighthouse [#sea ,#lighthouse ,#ocean ,#waves ,#Cromwells Lighthouse]·Keith, CC BY 3.0 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 107 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Chapeltown; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Naomh Dar Earca​.

Questions people ask

Where is Chapeltown?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 128 km west of Cork and 318 km from Dublin.
How big is Chapeltown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 318 buildings, 3 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 57th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Chapeltown?
107 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Toberreendoney, Shepherds View and Carraig Na Circe.
How do you get to Chapeltown?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Kerry.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
318
buildings on the model
3
named streets
9
named places
18
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 Q24196488). 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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