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About Kenmare

Kenmare, Neidín in Irish, is a town in County Kerry, 76 km west of Cork, with 2,175 people at the 2011 census. It stands on the N71, R569 and L4050. The map gives it 2,839 buildings and 66 named streets, with 223 places named on them in 101 kinds, and 159 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Population
2,175 at the 2011 census
Where
76 km west of Cork, 278 km from Dublin
Position
51.8791° N, 9.5840° W, 8 m above sea level
Roads
N71, R569, L4050, L4051, L4052 and L5052
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
2,839 buildings, 66 streets, 223 named places in 101 kinds
Kenmare - shops on Main St
Kenmare - shops on Main St·Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Henry street in Kenmare (2012)
Henry street in Kenmare (2012)·JoachimKohler-HB, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Kenmare in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1864 to 1982. That is not a history of Kenmare, 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.

18641982Holy Cross ChurchUragh Wood Nature Reserve
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

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 159 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N71, R569, L4050, L4051, L4052 and L5052 running through Kenmare. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Saint John's Primary School, Pobail Scoil Inbhear Sceine and Kenmare Adult Education Centre.

Questions people ask

Where is Kenmare?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 76 km west of Cork and 278 km from Dublin, on the N71, R569 and L4050.
How big is Kenmare?
2,175 people at the 2011 census. On the map it is 2,839 buildings and 66 named streets.
What is there to see in Kenmare?
159 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kenmare Heritage Town - Main Street, Kenmare Heritage Town - Market House and Kenmare Tourist Information Office.
How do you get to Kenmare?
3 bus and train lines call at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and 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.
2,839
buildings on the model
66
named streets
223
named places
101
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 Q166232). 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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