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County Kildare · Leinster

About Kill

Kill, An Chill in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 25 km south-west of Dublin. It stands on the N7, L2007 and L2010. The map gives it 2,035 buildings and 21 named streets, with 19 places named on them in 30 kinds, and 162 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
25 km south-west of Dublin
Position
53.2487° N, 6.5892° W, 61 m above sea level
Area
1.1 km²
Roads
N7, L2007, L2010, L2020 and L6032
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,035 buildings, 21 streets, 19 named places in 30 kinds
Grounds of St. John's Church of Ireland, Kill
Grounds of St. John's Church of Ireland, Kill·Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
St. Brigid's Church, Kill
St. Brigid's Church, Kill·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Kill in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1350 to 1988. That is not a history of Kill, 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.

13501988Oughterard ChurchThe Steam Musem
The fourteenth century
  • 1350Oughterard ChurchHistoric churches · 3.6 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
  • the 1630sJigginstown HouseHistoric houses · 7.4 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twentieth 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 162 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N7, L2007, L2010, L2020 and L6032 running through Kill. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

8 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Kill?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 25 km south-west of Dublin and 25 km from Dublin, on the N7, L2007 and L2010.
How big is Kill?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,035 buildings, 21 named streets and 19 named places, which by building count makes it the 15th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Kill?
162 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kill Hill, St. Bridget's Well and McCullagh's Wood.
How do you get to Kill?
8 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Go-Ahead Ireland.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
2,035
buildings on the model
21
named streets
19
named places
30
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 Q2084287). 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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