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About Callan

Callan, Callain in Irish, is a town in County Kilkenny, 15 km south-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the N76, R692 and R695. The map gives it 3,104 buildings and 43 named streets, with 113 places named on them in 67 kinds, and 167 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Where
15 km south-west of Kilkenny, 117 km from Dublin
Position
52.5446° N, 7.3901° W, 65 m above sea level
Area
5 km²
Roads
N76, R692, R695, R699 and L1014
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
3,104 buildings, 43 streets, 113 named places in 67 kinds
County Kilkenny, The Old Charter House.
County Kilkenny, The Old Charter House.·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Right side of doorway
Right side of doorway·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Callan in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1193 to 1450. That is not a history of Callan, 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.

11931450Kells Augustinian PrioryPottlerath Church Ruin
The twelfth century
The fifteenth 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 167 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N76, R692, R695, R699 and L1014 running through Callan. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Coláiste Eamonn Ris - Edmund Rice College, Bunscoil McAuley Rice and Saint Brigid's College.

Questions people ask

Where is Callan?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 15 km south-west of Kilkenny and 117 km from Dublin, on the N76, R692 and R695.
How big is Callan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,104 buildings, 43 named streets and 113 named places, which by building count makes it the 2th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
What is there to see in Callan?
167 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Humphrey O'Sullivan, St Mary's Church and Saint Mary's Church.
How do you get to Callan?
2 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by JJ Kavanagh and TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow.
Has County Kilkenny grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,420 people in the county in 1841 and 104,160 in 2022.
3,104
buildings on the model
43
named streets
113
named places
67
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 Q1027150). 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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