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About Blackwood

Blackwood, Coill Dubh in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 37 km west of Dublin. It stands on the R403 and L1019. The map gives it 953 buildings and 4 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 86 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 25th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
37 km west of Dublin
Position
53.2932° N, 6.8160° W
Roads
R403 and L1019
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
953 buildings, 4 streets, 10 named places in 23 kinds
Source of the Slate River
Source of the Slate River·Bjwyse, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Leinster: Blackwood, Kildare (1)
Castles of Leinster: Blackwood, Kildare (1)·Garry Dickinson, CC BY-SA 2.0 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 86 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R403 and L1019 running through Blackwood.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Coill Dubh National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Blackwood?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 37 km west of Dublin and 37 km from Dublin, on the R403 and L1019.
How big is Blackwood?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 953 buildings, 4 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 25th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Blackwood?
86 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Blackwood Castle, Russell's Well and Mullhall's Fort.
How do you get to Blackwood?
5 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Go-Ahead Ireland and TFI Local Link Kildare South Dublin.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
953
buildings on the model
4
named streets
10
named places
23
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 Q4227148). 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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