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County Kilkenny · Leinster

About Johnstown

Johnstown, Baile Sheáin in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 23 km north-west of Kilkenny, with 445 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the M8, R435 and R639. The map gives it 738 buildings and 10 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 193 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 20th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Population
445 at the 2006 census
Where
23 km north-west of Kilkenny, 109 km from Dublin
Position
52.7485° N, 7.5570° W, 137 m above sea level
Roads
M8, R435 and R639
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
738 buildings, 10 streets, 15 named places in 24 kinds
St Mary's Church (Fertagh) (church in County Kilkenny, Ireland)
St Mary's Church (Fertagh) (church in County Kilkenny, Ireland)·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Door detail St Mary's Church Johnstown, moved here from the abbey in Grangefertagh.
Door detail St Mary's Church Johnstown, moved here from the abbey in Grangefertagh.·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

Johnstown in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1182 to 1823. That is not a history of Johnstown, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

11821823Kilcooly AbbeyGarrylaun Church Ruin
The twelfth century
  • 1182Kilcooly AbbeyAbbeys · 8.7 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century

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 193 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8, R435 and R639 running through Johnstown.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Coláiste Mhuire Johnstown.

Questions people ask

Where is Johnstown?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 23 km north-west of Kilkenny and 109 km from Dublin, on the M8, R435 and R639.
How big is Johnstown?
445 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 738 buildings and 10 named streets.
What is there to see in Johnstown?
193 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Delaney, John Hely and Hely.
How do you get to Johnstown?
5 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bernard Kavanagh & Sons, JJ/Bernard Kavanagh 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.
738
buildings on the model
10
named streets
15
named places
24
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 Q2084124). 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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