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County Kilkenny · Leinster

About Freshford

Freshford, Achadh Úr in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 13 km north-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the R693, R694 and L1818. The map gives it 979 buildings and 28 named streets, with 47 places named on them in 41 kinds, and 239 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Where
13 km north-west of Kilkenny, 102 km from Dublin
Position
52.7326° N, 7.3980° W, 75 m above sea level
Roads
R693, R694, L1818 and L5003
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
979 buildings, 28 streets, 47 named places in 41 kinds
Detail on the 12th century doorway into St. Lachtain's Church (right side) depicting two people
Detail on the 12th century doorway into St. Lachtain's Church (right side) depicting two people·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Freshford Church of Ireland doorway detail 2
Freshford Church of Ireland doorway detail 2·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 239 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R693, R694, L1818 and L5003 running through Freshford.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Lachtain.

Questions people ask

Where is Freshford?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 13 km north-west of Kilkenny and 102 km from Dublin, on the R693, R694 and L1818.
How big is Freshford?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 979 buildings, 28 named streets and 47 named places, which by building count makes it the 12th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
What is there to see in Freshford?
239 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ionad Lachtain, St. Lachtain's Church and Emma Jane Browne-Clayton.
How do you get to Freshford?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by JJ/Bernard Kavanagh.
Has County Kilkenny grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,420 people in the county in 1841 and 104,160 in 2022.
979
buildings on the model
28
named streets
47
named places
41
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 Q15221129). 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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