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About Moone

Moone, Maoin in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 46 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the L4004. The map gives it 270 buildings and 2 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 85 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 49th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
46 km north-east of Kilkenny, 56 km from Dublin
Position
52.9745° N, 6.8157° W
Roads
L4004
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
270 buildings, 2 streets, 9 named places in 19 kinds
Moone Abbey grooves exterior east wall
Moone Abbey grooves exterior east wall·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Moone Abbey grooves exterior east wall
Moone Abbey grooves exterior east wall·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Moone in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1148 to 2016. That is not a history of Moone, 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.

11482016Baltinglass AbbeyErnest Shackleton
The twelfth century
  • 1148Baltinglass AbbeyHistoric churches · 7.8 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1179Moone AbbeyHistoric churches · 810 m from the centre
The thirteenth century
The sixteenth century
  • the sixteenth centuryWhite CastleCastles · 11 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 85 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L4004 running through Moone.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Moone?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 46 km north-east of Kilkenny and 56 km from Dublin, on the L4004.
How big is Moone?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 270 buildings, 2 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 49th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Moone?
85 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Moone Park, Moone Abbey and Moone High Cross.
How do you get to Moone?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Kildare South Dublin.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
270
buildings on the model
2
named streets
9
named places
19
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 Q4307059). 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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