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About Kilmead

Kilmead, Cill Míde in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 49 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R415. The map gives it 518 buildings and 5 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 61 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 38th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
49 km north-east of Kilkenny, 55 km from Dublin
Position
53.0349° N, 6.8986° W
Roads
R415
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
518 buildings, 5 streets, 10 named places in 21 kinds
Youngstown House, Kilmead, Co. Kildare (1)
Youngstown House, Kilmead, Co. Kildare (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Youngstown House, Kilmead, Co. Kildare (2)
Youngstown House, Kilmead, Co. Kildare (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Kilmead in order

7 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1179 to 2016. That is not a history of Kilmead, 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 · 7.9 km from the centre
The thirteenth century
The sixteenth century
  • the sixteenth centuryWhite CastleCastles · 7.5 km from the centre
The eighteenth 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 61 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R415 running through Kilmead. 1 car park on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Íde Naofa.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilmead?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 49 km north-east of Kilkenny and 55 km from Dublin, on the R415.
How big is Kilmead?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 518 buildings, 5 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 38th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Kilmead?
61 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Moat of Ardscull, Gorden Bennet Race memorial and History of Moat of Ardscull.
How do you get to Kilmead?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Go-Ahead Ireland and JJ Kavanagh.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
518
buildings on the model
5
named streets
10
named places
21
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 Q6408007). 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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