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About Killarney

Killarney, Cill Airne in Irish, is a town in County Kerry, 73 km west of Cork, with 14,412 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the N22, N71 and N72. The map gives it 4,972 buildings and 194 named streets, with 709 places named on them in 180 kinds, and 142 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Population
14,412 at the 2022 census
Where
73 km west of Cork, 261 km from Dublin
Position
52.0596° N, 9.5053° W, 50 m above sea level
Roads
N22, N71, N72, R876, R877 and L3900
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Myrtle Beach, United States, Pleinfeld, Germany, Castiglione di Sicilia, Italy and Cooper City, United States
On the model
4,972 buildings, 194 streets, 709 named places in 180 kinds
College Street, Killarney (17170913483)
College Street, Killarney (17170913483)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
College Street, Killarney, 2021-06-21
College Street, Killarney, 2021-06-21·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Killarney in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the fifteenth century to 1961. That is not a history of Killarney, 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.

the fifteenth century1961Muckross AbbeyPeter Mark
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryMuckross AbbeyRuins · 3.8 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
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 142 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N22, N71, N72, R876, R877 and L3900 running through Killarney. 57 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 14 lines call at 18 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 Killarney?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 73 km west of Cork and 261 km from Dublin, on the N22, N71 and N72.
How big is Killarney?
14,412 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 4,972 buildings and 194 named streets.
What is there to see in Killarney?
142 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Clover's Lane, Killarney First World War Memorial and Jaunting Tours.
How do you get to Killarney?
14 bus and train lines call at 18 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Dublin Coach and Flight Link Limited. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
4,972
buildings on the model
194
named streets
709
named places
180
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 Q623382). 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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