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About Kilkea

Kilkea, Cill Cathaigh in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 41 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R418. The map gives it 244 buildings and 6 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 84 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 51th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
41 km north-east of Kilkenny, 61 km from Dublin
Position
52.9483° N, 6.8953° W
Roads
R418
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
244 buildings, 6 streets, 9 named places in 24 kinds
Kilkea Castle
Kilkea Castle·dougf, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Carved Stone on Kilkea Castle
Carved Stone on Kilkea Castle·dougf, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Kilkea in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1179 to 2016. That is not a history of Kilkea, 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.

11792016Moone AbbeyErnest Shackleton
The twelfth century
  • 1179Moone AbbeyHistoric churches · 5.9 km from the centre
The thirteenth century
The sixteenth century
  • the sixteenth centuryWhite CastleCastles · 7.7 km from the centre
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first 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 84 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R418 running through Kilkea. 1 car park on the map.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Kilkea National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilkea?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 41 km north-east of Kilkenny and 61 km from Dublin, on the R418.
How big is Kilkea?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 244 buildings, 6 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 51th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Kilkea?
84 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Church ruins, Mullaghreelan and Lorcán Ó Tuathail.
How do you get to Kilkea?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R418.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
244
buildings on the model
6
named streets
9
named places
24
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 Q2812375). 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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