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County Kilkenny · Leinster

About Knocktopher

Knocktopher, Cnoc an Tóchair in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 18 km south of Kilkenny. It stands on the M9 and R713. The map gives it 398 buildings and 6 named streets, with 19 places named on them in 31 kinds, and 238 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 31th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Where
18 km south of Kilkenny, 115 km from Dublin
Position
52.4862° N, 7.2177° W
Roads
M9 and R713
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
398 buildings, 6 streets, 19 named places in 31 kinds
Knocktopher Church Tomb Chest of Geoffry Power and Margaret Waton 2017 09 13
Knocktopher Church Tomb Chest of Geoffry Power and Margaret Waton 2017 09 13·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cemetery of Knocktopher around the ruins of Knocktopher church.
Cemetery of Knocktopher around the ruins of Knocktopher church.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Knocktopher in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1180 to 1959. That is not a history of Knocktopher, 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.

11801959Jerpoint AbbeyScoil Aireagail
The twelfth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth 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 238 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M9 and R713 running through Knocktopher.

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 Aireagail.

Questions people ask

Where is Knocktopher?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 18 km south of Kilkenny and 115 km from Dublin, on the M9 and R713.
How big is Knocktopher?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 398 buildings, 6 named streets and 19 named places, which by building count makes it the 31th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
What is there to see in Knocktopher?
238 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Knocktopher Heritage, Knocktopher Church Ruin and Trinity Well.
How do you get to Knocktopher?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 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.
398
buildings on the model
6
named streets
19
named places
31
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 Q3778121). 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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