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County Kilkenny · Leinster

About Clogh

Clogh, An Chloch in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 24 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 661 buildings and 5 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 89 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Where
24 km north of Kilkenny, 81 km from Dublin
Position
52.8603° N, 7.1630° W
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
661 buildings, 5 streets, 6 named places in 19 kinds
entrance to Church Well, Chatsworth. It's not one I would call accessible, because you have to walk a boggy field, jump a stream and walk another boggy fiel with cattle in it.
entrance to Church Well, Chatsworth. It's not one I would call accessible, because you have to walk a boggy field, jump a stream and walk another boggy fiel with cattle in it.·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church Well in Chatsworth. A church site was nearby. It looks like the holy well is not used for worship or even looked after. It is also hardly accessible
Church Well in Chatsworth. A church site was nearby. It looks like the holy well is not used for worship or even looked after. It is also hardly accessible·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 89 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Clogh; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

2 lines call 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 Clogh?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 24 km north of Kilkenny and 81 km from Dublin.
How big is Clogh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 661 buildings, 5 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
What is there to see in Clogh?
89 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Clogh Castle (site of), Cloneen GAA and Church Well.
How do you get to Clogh?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Slieve Bloom Coach Tours and TFI Local Link Laois Offaly.
Has County Kilkenny grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,420 people in the county in 1841 and 104,160 in 2022.
661
buildings on the model
5
named streets
6
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 Q5134896). 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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