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About Killorglin

Killorglin, Cill Orglan in Irish, is a town in County Kerry, 93 km west of Cork. It stands on the N70, N72 and L4034. The map gives it 2,210 buildings and 20 named streets, with 107 places named on them in 63 kinds, and 92 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Population
2,163, as the map records it
Where
93 km west of Cork, 275 km from Dublin
Position
52.1062° N, 9.7868° W
Roads
N70, N72, L4034, L4038 and L4600
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Plouha, France
On the model
2,210 buildings, 20 streets, 107 named places in 63 kinds
A view of the Lower Bridge Street, Killorglin
A view of the Lower Bridge Street, Killorglin·DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A view of Lower Bridge Street in Killorglin. The puck fair display is visible in the center
A view of Lower Bridge Street in Killorglin. The puck fair display is visible in the center·DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 92 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N70, N72, L4034, L4038 and L4600 running through Killorglin.

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

1 school or college on the map: Douglas National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Killorglin?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 93 km west of Cork and 275 km from Dublin, on the N70, N72 and L4034.
How big is Killorglin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,210 buildings, 20 named streets and 107 named places, which by building count makes it the 8th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Killorglin?
92 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ring of Kerry Killorglin, Tourist Information and Killorglin Playground.
How do you get to Killorglin?
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.
2,210
buildings on the model
20
named streets
107
named places
63
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 Q1669399). 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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