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About Knocknagashel

Knocknagashel is a village in County Kerry, 63 km south-west of Limerick, with 721 people at the 2006 census. The map gives it 563 buildings and 3 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 43 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 34th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Population
721 at the 2006 census
Where
63 km south-west of Limerick, 238 km from Dublin
Position
52.3315° N, 9.3815° W
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
563 buildings, 3 streets, 5 named places in 15 kinds
Southbound N21, Knockbrack
Southbound N21, Knockbrack·David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Southbound N21 passing the Amerigin Sculpture
Southbound N21 passing the Amerigin Sculpture·David Dixon, 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 43 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Knocknagashel; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Mhuire.

Questions people ask

Where is Knocknagashel?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 63 km south-west of Limerick and 238 km from Dublin.
How big is Knocknagashel?
721 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 563 buildings and 3 named streets.
What is there to see in Knocknagashel?
43 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Raheena, Liscaheragh and Knockachur.
How do you get to Knocknagashel?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
563
buildings on the model
3
named streets
5
named places
15
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 Q3778127). 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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