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Kildare
County Kildare · Leinster

About Kildare

Kildare, Cill Dara in Irish, is a town in County Kildare, 48 km south-west of Dublin, with 7,538 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the M7, R401 and R415. The map gives it 6,090 buildings and 91 named streets, with 238 places named on them in 82 kinds, and 101 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Population
7,538 at the 2006 census
Where
48 km south-west of Dublin
Position
53.1568° N, 6.9117° W, 105 m above sea level
Roads
M7, R401, R415, R445 and L3005
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Deauville, France
On the model
6,090 buildings, 91 streets, 238 named places in 82 kinds
Clothes Market, but where? Kildare Town! (9014457386)
Clothes Market, but where? Kildare Town! (9014457386)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Kildare Heritage Centre, 2021-07-03
Kildare Heritage Centre, 2021-07-03·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Kildare 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.

247,77457,892114,48818412022

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 101 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M7, R401, R415, R445 and L3005 running through Kildare. 17 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 16 lines call at 20 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 Kildare?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 48 km south-west of Dublin and 48 km from Dublin, on the M7, R401 and R415.
How big is Kildare?
7,538 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 6,090 buildings and 91 named streets.
What is there to see in Kildare?
101 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kildare Derby Legends Trail marker 2 of 12, Market House and Saint Brigid's Fire Temple.
How do you get to Kildare?
16 bus and train lines call at 20 stops here in the published timetable, run by Dublin Coach, Go-Ahead Ireland and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
6,090
buildings on the model
91
named streets
238
named places
82
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 Q917865). 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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