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About Knightstown

Knightstown, An Chois in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 125 km west of Cork. It stands on the R565. The map gives it 378 buildings and 5 named streets, with 19 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 103 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 50th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
125 km west of Cork, 314 km from Dublin
Position
51.9256° N, 10.2884° W
Roads
R565
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
378 buildings, 5 streets, 19 named places in 24 kinds
Market Street of Knightstown, looking east towards the harbour.
Market Street of Knightstown, looking east towards the harbour.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Car Ferry, Knightstown, County Kerry, 2021-06-21
Car Ferry, Knightstown, County Kerry, 2021-06-21·瑞丽江的河水, 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 103 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R565 running through Knightstown.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Knightstown?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 125 km west of Cork and 314 km from Dublin, on the R565.
How big is Knightstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 378 buildings, 5 named streets and 19 named places, which by building count makes it the 50th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Knightstown?
103 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Knightstown Playground, Church Island Monastic Site and Beginish house.
How do you get to Knightstown?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop 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.
378
buildings on the model
5
named streets
19
named places
24
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 Q4312468). 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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