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County Kilkenny · Leinster

About Kilmacow

Kilmacow, Cill Mhic Bhúith in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 8 km north-west of Waterford. It stands on the R448, L3403 and L7553. The map gives it 1,057 buildings and 10 named streets, with 22 places named on them in 33 kinds, and 206 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 10th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Where
8 km north-west of Waterford, 130 km from Dublin
Position
52.3161° N, 7.1774° W
Roads
R448, L3403 and L7553
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Saint-Thurien, France
On the model
1,057 buildings, 10 streets, 22 named places in 33 kinds
Mullinavat railway station (site), County Kilkenny (geograph 6348524)
Mullinavat railway station (site), County Kilkenny (geograph 6348524)·Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kilmacow railway station(site), County Kilkenny (geograph 6348533)
Kilmacow railway station(site), County Kilkenny (geograph 6348533)·Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Kilmacow in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the thirteenth century to 2003. That is not a history of Kilmacow, 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.

the thirteenth century2003Reginald's TowerViking settlement site
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryReginald's TowerCastles · 7.9 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twentieth century
The twenty-first 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 206 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R448, L3403 and L7553 running through Kilmacow.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: St. Senan's N.S. (Senior) and St. Senan's N.S. (Junior).

Questions people ask

Where is Kilmacow?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 8 km north-west of Waterford and 130 km from Dublin, on the R448, L3403 and L7553.
How big is Kilmacow?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,057 buildings, 10 named streets and 22 named places, which by building count makes it the 10th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
What is there to see in Kilmacow?
206 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Dangan Castle, Toberenan and Ullid Church.
How do you get to Kilmacow?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Kilkenny grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,420 people in the county in 1841 and 104,160 in 2022.
1,057
buildings on the model
10
named streets
22
named places
33
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 Q4220545). 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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