About Kildoon
Kildoon, Coill Duáin in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 52 km south-west of Dublin. The map gives it 465 buildings and 1 named street, with 3 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 73 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 42th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
- Where
- 52 km south-west of Dublin
- Position
- 53.0975° N, 6.9153° W
- Governed
- Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
- On the model
- 465 buildings, 1 street, 3 named places in 18 kinds
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.
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.
- Susan's Fort1.6 kmRingforts and sites
- Pigeon House Ruin2.1 kmRuins
- Nurney Playground2.3 kmPlaygrounds
- Church (ruins)4.2 kmRuins
- Fuaran Well4.3 kmHoly wells
- Brookfield Wood4.9 kmWoods
- Saint Brigid5.1 kmMonuments
- St. Bridget's Well5.2 kmHoly wells
- Church ruins5.3 kmRuins
- 5.3 km
- Japanese Gardens5.3 kmAttractions
- Irish National Stud and Japanese Gardens5.3 kmAttractions
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Kildoon; the roads it does record are local.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
Questions people ask
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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. 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.