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About Gowran

Gowran, Gabhrán in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 13 km east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R448 and L2637. The map gives it 839 buildings and 16 named streets, with 25 places named on them in 35 kinds, and 159 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Where
13 km east of Kilkenny, 97 km from Dublin
Position
52.6282° N, 7.0688° W
Roads
R448 and L2637
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
839 buildings, 16 streets, 25 named places in 35 kinds
West gable of St. Mary's Church, Gowran.
West gable of St. Mary's Church, Gowran.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View from south-west of St. Mary's Church.
View from south-west of St. Mary's Church.·Andreas F. Borchert, 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 159 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R448 and L2637 running through Gowran.

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

1 school or college on the map: Gowran National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Gowran?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 13 km east of Kilkenny and 97 km from Dublin, on the R448 and L2637.
How big is Gowran?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 839 buildings, 16 named streets and 25 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
What is there to see in Gowran?
159 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kealy-Hackett, Gowran Abbey and Ballyshanemore Castle.
How do you get to Gowran?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann 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.
839
buildings on the model
16
named streets
25
named places
35
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 Q1131989). 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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