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County Kilkenny · Leinster

About Hugginstown

Hugginstown, Baile Hugúin in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 22 km south of Kilkenny. It stands on the M9. The map gives it 362 buildings and 2 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 229 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 37th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Where
22 km south of Kilkenny, 120 km from Dublin
Position
52.4516° N, 7.2517° W
Roads
M9
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
362 buildings, 2 streets, 6 named places in 22 kinds
A crossroads near Hugginstown
A crossroads near Hugginstown·Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Group at Hugginstown (28146111745)
Group at Hugginstown (28146111745)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions 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 229 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M9 running through Hugginstown.

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 Hugginstown?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 22 km south of Kilkenny and 120 km from Dublin, on the M9.
How big is Hugginstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 362 buildings, 2 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 37th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
What is there to see in Hugginstown?
229 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carrickshock Memorial, Hugginstown Ringfort and Newmarket Portal tomb.
How do you get to Hugginstown?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the M9.
Has County Kilkenny grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,420 people in the county in 1841 and 104,160 in 2022.
362
buildings on the model
2
named streets
6
named places
22
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 Q4494483). 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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