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Kilkenny
County Kilkenny · Leinster

About Mooncoin

Mooncoin, Móin Choinn in Irish, is a town in County Kilkenny, 10 km west of Waterford. It stands on the N24, R680 and L7417. The map gives it 1,858 buildings and 21 named streets, with 46 places named on them in 36 kinds, and 168 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Where
10 km west of Waterford, 135 km from Dublin
Position
52.2909° N, 7.2515° W, 25 m above sea level
Roads
N24, R680, L7417 and L7419
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,858 buildings, 21 streets, 46 named places in 36 kinds
Portnascully Graveyard and Church ruin with a step over stile leading up into the graveyard. National monuments no. KK045-002002.
Portnascully Graveyard and Church ruin with a step over stile leading up into the graveyard. National monuments no. KK045-002002.·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Thatched cottage on Main Street in Mooncoin, Co. Kilkenny. No. 57 in Lenehan's 1994 survey.
Thatched cottage on Main Street in Mooncoin, Co. Kilkenny. No. 57 in Lenehan's 1994 survey.·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Mooncoin 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 Mooncoin, 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 · 11 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 168 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N24, R680, L7417 and L7419 running through Mooncoin.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Mhuire NS Senior Campus, Coláiste Cois Siúire Móin Choinn and Scoil Mhuire NS Junior Campus.

Questions people ask

Where is Mooncoin?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 10 km west of Waterford and 135 km from Dublin, on the N24, R680 and L7417.
How big is Mooncoin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,858 buildings, 21 named streets and 46 named places, which by building count makes it the 6th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
What is there to see in Mooncoin?
168 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rising Stars Playground, Rathkieran Church Ruin and Tober Kieran.
How do you get to Mooncoin?
5 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Piltown Coaches.
Has County Kilkenny grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,420 people in the county in 1841 and 104,160 in 2022.
1,858
buildings on the model
21
named streets
46
named places
36
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 Q3776881). 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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