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About Clonkeen

Clonkeen, Cluain Chaoin in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 57 km west of Cork. It stands on the N22. The map gives it 19 buildings and 3 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 11 kinds, and 80 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 67th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
57 km west of Cork, 255 km from Dublin
Position
51.9883° N, 9.2968° W
Roads
N22
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
19 buildings, 3 streets, 2 named places in 11 kinds
Capall Mór - The Unicorn sculpture at road N22 / Ireland
Capall Mór - The Unicorn sculpture at road N22 / Ireland·Dominik Kara, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Across the Clydagh River Valley
Across the Clydagh River Valley·Ian Paterson, 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 80 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N22 running through Clonkeen.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Clonkeen?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 57 km west of Cork and 255 km from Dublin, on the N22.
How big is Clonkeen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 19 buildings, 3 named streets and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 67th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Clonkeen?
80 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Marian Shrine, Coolcurtoga and Gortalicka.
How do you get to Clonkeen?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the N22.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
19
buildings on the model
3
named streets
2
named places
11
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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