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County Kilkenny · Leinster

About Coon

Coon, Coan in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 18 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the L1835. The map gives it 372 buildings and 3 named streets, with 4 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 106 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 35th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Where
18 km north-east of Kilkenny, 85 km from Dublin
Position
52.7870° N, 7.1186° W
Roads
L1835
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
372 buildings, 3 streets, 4 named places in 16 kinds
Roadside pump in Coan
Roadside pump in Coan·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Possible location of the Rosary Well in Coan. There is certainly a spring there, and the water flows into the Dinan just beside Burn's Bridge.
Possible location of the Rosary Well in Coan. There is certainly a spring there, and the water flows into the Dinan just beside Burn's Bridge.·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 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 106 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1835 running through Coon.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Coon?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 18 km north-east of Kilkenny and 85 km from Dublin, on the L1835.
How big is Coon?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 372 buildings, 3 named streets and 4 named places, which by building count makes it the 35th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
What is there to see in Coon?
106 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Coon Playground, Castle Quan (site of) and Croghtenclogh Ringfort.
How do you get to Coon?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the L1835.
Has County Kilkenny grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,420 people in the county in 1841 and 104,160 in 2022.
372
buildings on the model
3
named streets
4
named places
16
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. 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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