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Kilkenny
County Kilkenny · Leinster

About Kilkenny

Kilkenny, Cill Chainnigh in Irish, is a city in County Kilkenny, 44 km north of Waterford, with 22,179 people at the 2011 census. It stands on the M9, N10 and N74. The map gives it 22,635 buildings and 507 named streets, with 1,521 places named on them in 279 kinds, and 347 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Population
22,179 at the 2011 census
Where
44 km north of Waterford, 102 km from Dublin
Position
52.6506° N, 7.2514° W, 60 m above sea level
Area
26.76 km²
Roads
M9, N10, N74, N76, N77, R693, R695 and R697
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Yangzhou, People's Republic of China, Moret-sur-Loing, France and Formigine, Italy
On the model
22,635 buildings, 507 streets, 1,521 named places in 279 kinds
Kilkenny Castle above the River Nore.
Kilkenny Castle above the River Nore.·Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Stone arches and stained glass inside the Black Abbey.
Stone arches and stained glass inside the Black Abbey.·Qwertzu111111, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Kilkenny in order

26 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the eleventh century to 2024. That is not a history of Kilkenny, 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.

the eleventh century2024Kilmalog ChurchMayfair Library
The eleventh century
  • the eleventh centuryKilmalog ChurchHistoric churches · 2.6 km from the centre
The thirteenth century
The sixteenth century
  • 1538Kilkenny CollegeSchools · 1.7 km from the centre
  • 1538Kilkenny CollegeSchools · 1.8 km from the centre
  • 1582Archer HouseHistoric houses · 150 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1594Rothe HouseHistoric houses · 460 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

County Kilkenny 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.

202,42060,463104,16018412022

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 347 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M9, N10, N74, N76, N77, R693, R695 and R697 running through Kilkenny. 68 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 15 lines call at 96 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

29 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilkenny?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 44 km north of Waterford and 102 km from Dublin, on the M9, N10 and N74.
How big is Kilkenny?
22,179 people at the 2011 census. On the map it is 22,635 buildings and 507 named streets.
What is there to see in Kilkenny?
347 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Colles Horse Trough, Rose Garden and Thomas Moore.
How do you get to Kilkenny?
15 bus and train lines call at 96 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, City Direct and Dublin Coach. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Kilkenny grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,420 people in the county in 1841 and 104,160 in 2022.
22,635
buildings on the model
507
named streets
1521
named places
279
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 Q109092). 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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