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About Kilcullen

Kilcullen, Cill Chuillinn in Irish, is a town in County Kildare, 40 km south-west of Dublin. It stands on the M9, R412 and R413. The map gives it 2,941 buildings and 41 named streets, with 97 places named on them in 60 kinds, and 96 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Population
3,815, as the map records it
Where
40 km south-west of Dublin
Position
53.1306° N, 6.7456° W, 114 m above sea level
Area
1.89 km²
Roads
M9, R412, R413 and R448
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,941 buildings, 41 streets, 97 named places in 60 kinds
On the demesne of Harristown House, County Kildare
On the demesne of Harristown House, County Kildare·Ridiculopathy, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
On the demesne of Harristown House, County Kildare
On the demesne of Harristown House, County Kildare·Ridiculopathy, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

Kilcullen in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 1630s to 1889. That is not a history of Kilcullen, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the 1630s1889Jigginstown HouseKilcullen GAA
The seventeenth century
  • the 1630sJigginstown HouseHistoric houses · 10 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth century

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 96 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M9, R412, R413 and R448 running through Kilcullen. 10 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

8 lines call at 26 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Cross and Passion College, Scoil Bhríde National School and Brannoxtown National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilcullen?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 40 km south-west of Dublin and 40 km from Dublin, on the M9, R412 and R413.
How big is Kilcullen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,941 buildings, 41 named streets and 97 named places, which by building count makes it the 12th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Kilcullen?
96 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Valley rock, The Valley water feature and The Magician.
How do you get to Kilcullen?
8 bus and train lines call at 26 stops here in the published timetable, run by Go-Ahead Ireland, JJ Kavanagh and TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
2,941
buildings on the model
41
named streets
97
named places
60
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 Q2669870). 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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